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Clothing Cultures 6.2 is now available
Monday, May 11, 2020

Clothing Cultures 6.2 is now available

Intellect is pleased to announce that Clothing Cultures 6.2 is now available! 

 

Special Issue: ‘Clothing Then, Clothing Now: Dress During Times of Unrest’ 

 

For more information about the special issue and journal, click here >> https://www.intellectbooks.com/clothing-cultures

 

Aims & Scope

 

This peer-reviewed journal brings together discourses pertinent to the study of dress practices, analysing and discussing clothing in all its guises, from design and manufacture to shops and shopping. It explores the dressed and undressed body in both local and global contexts.

 

Issue 6.2

 

Editorial

JO TURNEY

 

Articles

 

A tale of two centuries: The körtti movement and dress in battles over Finnish politics and identities

ANNA-MARI ALMILA

 

Hijab and modesty: Muslim religious identity expression among Egyptian women in the United States

MANAL SHAHEEN AND CHANMI HWANG

 

Freedom of speech: A recent history of political t-shirts in the United States

HEATHER MARIE AKOU

 

Leopard in kitten heels: The politics of Theresa May’s sartorial choices

RACHEL EVANS

 

Dressing for freedom and justice

SHA’MIRA COVINGTON AND KATALIN MEDVEDEV

 

The politics of clothing in postcolonial Indian democracy

NISAR KANNANGARA

 

Learning punk through its products: Combining fashion merchandising practices and pedagogy to develop a subculture of resistance

MONICA SKLAR, CAROLINE HELFGOTT AND FARAH KITCHENS

 

Manifesto of dress: Political intersections in fashion lecture-performances

MADELINE TAYLOR, KIARA BULLEY AND ANNA HICKEY

 

Book Review

 

The Social Life of Kimono: Japanese Fashion Past and Present, Sheila Cliffe (2017)

EMILIA J. BOULTON