{"id":1036,"date":"2008-08-06T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=1036"},"modified":"2008-08-06T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-06T15:00:00","slug":"get-your-feminism-and-fashion-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2008\/08\/06\/get-your-feminism-and-fashion-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Your Feminism and Fashion On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/SJmvQ8lmSVI\/AAAAAAAAByg\/C3Ss1CdzDxw\/s1600-h\/images.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;float: left;cursor: pointer\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/SJmvQ8lmSVI\/AAAAAAAAByg\/C3Ss1CdzDxw\/s200\/images.jpeg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.redroom.com\/author\/shira-tarrant\">Shira Tarrant,<\/a> editor of the fabulous <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Men Speak Out,<\/span> is at it again with a call for essays for a new academic anthology, this time on feminism and fashion, tentatively titled <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Feminism, Fashion and Flair: Confronting Hegemony with Style.   <\/span>Here&#8217;s the description:<\/p>\n<p>Fashion is a powerful way we express our politics, personalities, and preferences for who and how we love. Yet fashion can also repress freedom and sexual expression. Fashion encourages profound creativity, rebellion, and defiant self-definition while simultaneously controlling and disciplining the body. Fashion signals resistance to sexual mor\u00c3\u00a9s and it can also promote a problematic consumer culture. Fashion creates collective identity, but also constrains individual voice. In other words, fashion contains the paradoxical potential for pleasure and subjugation, expression and conformity.<\/p>\n<p>This book explores the productive tensions generated by fashion and style.  We are interested in essays that take up questions of gender with special attention to race, class, sexuality, age, and ethnicity.  This collection blends theory and pop culture analysis in exciting ways, focusing on contemporary trends and controversies.<\/p>\n<p>Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:<br \/>Theories of agency, style, and the presentation of self<br \/>Performing identity: race, class, gender and sexuality through style<br \/>Consumerist pleasure and anxiety<br \/>Fashion production in the context of global capital and trade<br \/>Bois, grrls, trannies and styles of queerness<br \/>Hardcore, metro, punk, and khakis: constructing masculinities through fashion<br \/>Body art and ethnic appropriations<br \/>Debates in plastic surgery and re-fashioning the body<br \/>Class identity and decorating domestic space<br \/>Feminist fashion: debates over style and politics<br \/>The ethics of green production and marketing<br \/>Everyday pornography and fashion fetish<br \/>Virtual style and online identities<br \/>Material culture and craft in a postmodern world<br \/>Slumming and radical chic: tensions of authenticity and irony<br \/>Vintage and thrift fashion: nostalgia and class signifiers<br \/>DIY Style: fashion off the corporate grid<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Deadline for abstracts is August 15, 2008. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Format for abstracts: Word document, double-spaced, between 300 and 500 words. Include contact information and short bio.<\/p>\n<p>Send to: FashionBook1@yahoo.com<\/p>\n<p>Shira Tarrant<br \/>Assistant Professor<br \/>Women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Studies Department<br \/>California State University, Long Beach<\/p>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<p>Marjorie Jolles<br \/>Assistant Professor<br \/>Women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s &amp; Gender Studies Program<br \/>Roosevelt University<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shira Tarrant, editor of the fabulous Men Speak Out, is at it again with a call for essays for a new academic anthology, this time on feminism and fashion, tentatively titled Feminism, Fashion and Flair: Confronting Hegemony with Style. 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