Critical Studies in Fashion & Beauty (Journal)

ISSN 20404417 , ONLINE ISSN 20404425

Critical Studies in Fashion & Beauty (CSFB) engages analytically, critically and creatively with fashion and/or beauty. It aims to challenge issues such as a) the conflation of fashion and beauty, b) the exclusion of masculinities, people of colour, older adults, differentially abled individuals, and queer and transgender subjectivities in fashion and/or beauty discourse and c) the blurring of distinct fashion and/or beauty industries. The journal seeks to foster more diverse and inclusive ways of understanding the field and to propel fresh theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of fashion.

This title is indexed with Scopus and the Web of Science’s Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI).

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Editors

Susan B. Kaiser
University of California, Davis, USA
sbkaiser@ucdavis.edu

Anneke Smelik
Radboud University, the Netherlands
anneke.smelik@ru.nl

Associate Editors

Satarupa Bhattacharya
Exhibition Reviews Editor, Delhi, India
satarupabhattacharya00@gmail.com

Denise N. Green
Cornell University, USA
dng22@cornell.edu

Chamutal Leket
Book Reviews Editor, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
leketc@gmail.com

Michael Mamp
Central Michigan University, USA
mamp1me@cmich.edu

Kelly Reddy-Best
Iowa State University, USA
klrb@iastate.edu

Annamari Vänskä
Aalto University, Finland
annamari.vanska@aalto.fi

Founding Editor

Efrat Tseëlon
University of Leeds, UK
e.tseelon@leeds.ac.uk

Aims & Scope

Critical Studies in Fashion & Beauty (CSFB) engages analytically, critically and creatively with fashion and/or beauty. At times lumped together conceptually into ‘the fashion-beauty complex’, this journal acknowledges the problems associated with collapsing these terms, such as: (a) the conflation of fashion and beauty, concepts which encompass varying degrees and types of agency, change and dynamism; (b) the implicit reinforcement of white hegemonic femininity (and hence, the exclusion of masculinities, people of colour, older adults, differentially abled individuals, and queer and transgender subjectivities); and (c) the blurring of distinct industries. At the same time, the body is the centrepiece of fashion and beauty alike – in cultural representation as well as in everyday life. CSFB seeks to foster more diverse and inclusive ways of understanding the embodiment of aesthetics and politics. It does so by dismantling hegemonic assumptions and propelling fresh theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of fashion and/or beauty.

Submissions

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All articles submitted should be original work and must not be under consideration by other publications.
 
Journal contributors will receive a free PDF copy of their final work upon publication. Print copies of the journal may also be purchased by contributors at half price.
 
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Peer Review Policy

All articles undergo initial editorial screening either by the journal's Editorial Team and/or incumbent Guest Editors. Articles then undergo a rigorous anonymous peer review by two referees, following the guidance in Intellect's 'Peer review instructions'. Based on this feedback, the Editors will communicate a decision and revision suggestions to authors. To appeal an editorial decision, please contact the main Editor who will consider your case.

Ethical Guidelines

The journal follows the principles set out by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Read our Ethical Guidelines for more on the journal's standards.


Notes for Contributors Download

Editors

Susan B. Kaiser
University of California, Davis, USA
sbkaiser@ucdavis.edu

Anneke Smelik
Radboud University, the Netherlands
anneke.smelik@ru.nl

Associate Editors

Satarupa Bhattacharya
Exhibition Reviews Editor, Delhi, India
satarupabhattacharya00@gmail.com

Denise N. Green
Cornell University, USA
dng22@cornell.edu

Chamutal Leket
Book Reviews Editor, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
leketc@gmail.com

Michael Mamp
Central Michigan University, USA
mamp1me@cmich.edu

Kelly Reddy-Best
Iowa State University, USA
klrb@iastate.edu

Annamari Vänskä
Aalto University, Finland
annamari.vanska@aalto.fi

Founding Editor

Efrat Tseëlon
University of Leeds, UK
e.tseelon@leeds.ac.uk

Editors

Susan B. Kaiser
University of California, Davis, USA
sbkaiser@ucdavis.edu

Anneke Smelik
Radboud University, the Netherlands
anneke.smelik@ru.nl

Associate Editors

Satarupa Bhattacharya
Exhibition Reviews Editor, Delhi, India
satarupabhattacharya00@gmail.com

Denise N. Green
Cornell University, USA
dng22@cornell.edu

Chamutal Leket
Book Reviews Editor, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
leketc@gmail.com

Michael Mamp
Central Michigan University, USA
mamp1me@cmich.edu

Kelly Reddy-Best
Iowa State University, USA
klrb@iastate.edu

Annamari Vänskä
Aalto University, Finland
annamari.vanska@aalto.fi

Founding Editor

Efrat Tseëlon
University of Leeds, UK
e.tseelon@leeds.ac.uk

Editors

Susan B. Kaiser
University of California, Davis, USA
sbkaiser@ucdavis.edu

Anneke Smelik
Radboud University, the Netherlands
anneke.smelik@ru.nl

Associate Editors

Satarupa Bhattacharya
Exhibition Reviews Editor, Delhi, India
satarupabhattacharya00@gmail.com

Denise N. Green
Cornell University, USA
dng22@cornell.edu

Chamutal Leket
Book Reviews Editor, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
leketc@gmail.com

Michael Mamp
Central Michigan University, USA
mamp1me@cmich.edu

Kelly Reddy-Best
Iowa State University, USA
klrb@iastate.edu

Annamari Vänskä
Aalto University, Finland
annamari.vanska@aalto.fi

Founding Editor

Efrat Tseëlon
University of Leeds, UK
e.tseelon@leeds.ac.uk

General Call for Papers Download

Special Issue: 'Black Beauty: Perspectives, Views and Representations' Download

Deadline for Abstracts: 31 May 2023



Call for Book Reviews Editor 

Critical Studies in Fashion & Beauty is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal indexed in Scopus and the Web of Science. The journal engages analytically, critically and creatively with fashion and/or beauty.

Critical Studies in Fashion & Beauty is looking for a scholar who knows the field of fashion studies and can serve as a Book Reviews Editor to coordinate regular book reviews, working with publishers, authors, and prospective reviewers.  

If you are interested in this position or have any queries, please contact the editors:

Susan B. Kaiser, University of California, Davis: sbkaiser@ucdavis.edu Anneke Smelik, Radboud University, the Netherlands: a.smelik@let.ru.nl

 

General Call for Papers 

The Field
Critical Studies in Fashion & Beauty employs a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary theories and methods to understand: (a) how and why people appear as they do in everyday life and communicate with others in the process of doing so, (b) the materials and products they use to fashion their appearances and (c) the labour and conditions associated with the creation and distribution of the materials and products used to style, dress and fashion diverse bodies in everyday life. The journal invites critical and creative, disciplinary and interdisciplinary and international perspectives on studies of fashion and/or beauty – locating these within their larger cultural and theoretical contexts, and interrogating their ideological underpinnings. Critical Studies in Fashion & Beauty favours contributions that combine theoretical and methodological rigour.

The Journal
The journal invites critical and creative, disciplinary and interdisciplinary, and international perspectives on studies of fashion and/or beauty. Authors are invited to locate these within their larger cultural and theoretical contexts, and interrogate their ideological underpinnings: for example, deconstructing limiting (e.g., binary-gendered, oppositional, racialized assumptive, aged-associative) ways of knowing.

We are especially interested in papers that offer fresh perspectives on age-old questions regarding structure and agency, for example:

  • how the body interfaces with aesthetic, cultural, economic, and social politics that become inextricably intertwined with issues of appearance, class, dis/ability, ethnicity, gender, generation/age, race, religion, sexuality, and other subject positions;
  • how individuals resist structurally institutionalized constraints and express their own subjectivities despite such constraints;
  • how individuals articulate agency through expressions of appearance style, using the materials (e.g., textiles, clothes, accessories, beauty products) at hand; 
  • how local communities negotiate identities through style in the global economy.

We are open to all innovative research in this field, and are especially interested in papers that offer fresh perspectives that challenge hegemonic and colonial discourses and structures that have historically limited understandings of fashion and beauty. We encourage submissions that foster representation from diverse age, class, cultural, ethnic, gender, geographic and sexual perspectives

Papers should be submitted online at https://www.intellectbooks.com/critical-studies-in-fashion-beauty. Prospective authors are welcome to contact the Editors in advance of submission (sbkaiser@ucdavis.edu and a.smelik@let.ru.nl). 

CSFB welcomes book reviews of between 1000–1200 words. Enquiries regarding Book Reviews should be sent to the Book Reviews Editor, Chamutal Leket, at leketc@gmail.com

Journal contributors will receive a free PDF copy of their final work upon publication. Print copies of the journal may also be purchased by contributors at half price.

 

Special Issue Call for Papers

'Black Beauty: Perspectives, Views and Representations'

Guest Editors: Sharon N Hughes and Tania Phipps-Rufus, University of East London

 

This Special Issue focuses on ‘Black Beauty’, offering those who engage in pan-African, women and gender, critical race theory, fashion and beauty studies an opportunity to showcase scholarly work that will unpack, evaluate and critique the views, perceptions, history, myths and realism of Black women and beauty. We encourage submissions that critically use such lenses as Black feminist thought, feminist theory, critical race theory, postcolonial and decolonial theory, and that consider the numerous intersections of power and oppression at work in race, class, gender, sexuality, ability and nationality, as well as constructions of identity through the gaze of imperialistic cultures. 

Author bell hooks contends that Black female representation in the media determines how Blackness and people are seen and how other groups respond based on their relation to these constructed images. An insular definition of beauty is deeply ingrained in all cultures, each unique in its own right. It is rationalized that race, a social construct, determines our beauty standards, fashion choices and lifestyles. However, the more marginalized one is, the more challenging it is to be seen as relevant, alluring or part of western society. It can be argued that no one has felt this more than Black women. 

Women, in general, are challenged by societal ideas of beauty developed by culture creators. Can it be said that Black women, even more so, encounter a range of characterized ideologies filled with stereotypes and expectations of colonized perceptions of beauty? Today, images of twenty-first-century beauty are depicted with diversified faces through social media, pop culture, celebrity ambassadors and campaigns, vastly increasing the market share of beauty brands within the Black community. As researchers examine how culture affects self-concept and cultural identity, how have the challenges of Black beauty affected Black women psychologically, socially and emotionally? 

This Special Issue seeks to critically reflect upon and interpret how beauty among Black women within the pan-African diaspora is defined, expressed, created, criticized, politicized, appropriated and appreciated. 

Submissions are encouraged to explore Black beauty, including, but not limited to, the following kinds of questions or issues:

  • How is Black beauty seen and interpreted through varying eyes and views?
  • What is the influence behind the production of beauty within the pan-African community?
  • How has beauty been defined within the Black community?
  • How has the colonization of African Americans affected perceptions of Black beauty?
  • The influence of Black culture on the beauty industry.
  • To what extent did COVID and the Black Lives Matter movement compel changes in the representation of Black women in beauty and fashion media?
  • What are the effects of the perception of Black hair styles on the social mobility of Black women in the workplace? 

We welcome contributions from any discipline that incorporate academic articles and more experimental and artistic forms of writing. Please submit abstracts of 300–500 words and a brief bio (150 words) to Sharon N. Hughes, s.n.hughes@uel.ac.uk by 31 May 2023. Please do not hesitate to reach out if you have questions or ideas you want to share in advance. 

Articles submitted to ‘Black Beauty’ can range from 4000–8000 words in length (including references); images, tables and diagrams are welcome. All submissions will be double-blind peer-reviewed. Submissions are accepted on a rolling basis, with reviews commencing immediately. All submissions must follow Intellect’s house style: https://www.intellectbooks.com/asset/1748/house-style-guide-6th-ed..pdf

 

Important dates

Deadline for abstracts:           31 May 2023

Notification of abstracts:         30 June 2023

Deadline for full articles:         1 December 2023

 

 

 

Editors

Susan B. Kaiser
University of California, Davis, USA
sbkaiser@ucdavis.edu

Anneke Smelik
Radboud University, the Netherlands
anneke.smelik@ru.nl

Associate Editors

Satarupa Bhattacharya
Exhibition Reviews Editor, Delhi, India
satarupabhattacharya00@gmail.com

Denise N. Green
Cornell University, USA
dng22@cornell.edu

Chamutal Leket
Book Reviews Editor, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
leketc@gmail.com

Michael Mamp
Central Michigan University, USA
mamp1me@cmich.edu

Kelly Reddy-Best
Iowa State University, USA
klrb@iastate.edu

Annamari Vänskä
Aalto University, Finland
annamari.vanska@aalto.fi

Founding Editor

Efrat Tseëlon
University of Leeds, UK
e.tseelon@leeds.ac.uk

Editorial Board

Nazlı Alimen
Birmingham City University, UK

Oluwakemi Balogun
University of Oregon, USA

Jay McCauley Bowstead
London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, UK

Daniëlle Bruggeman
ArtEZ University of the Arts, the Netherlands

Nina Cole
Stanford University, USA

Maxine Craig
University of California, Davis, USA

Jeannine Diego
Institute of Critical Studies, Mexico

Vanessa Gerrie
Massey University, New Zealand

Sarah Gilligan
Northumbria University, UK

Catherine Glover
Northumbria University, UK

Aida Hurtado
University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

Kimberly Jenkins
Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada

Heike Jenß
Parsons School of Design, The New School, USA

Petra Krpan
Zagreb University, Croatia

Kyoko Koma
Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan

Giselinde Kuipers
University of Leuven, Belgium

Yoo Jin Kwon
Korean National Open University, Korea

Wessie Ling
London Metropolitan University, UK

Brent Luvaas
Drexel University, USA

Marie Riegels Melchior
University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Christina Moon
Parsons School of Design, The New School, USA

Monica Titton
University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria

Alessandra Vaccari
Università IUAV di Venezia, Italy

Sophie Woodward
University of Manchester, UK

Juanjuan Wu
University of Minnesota, USA

Advisory Board

Ben Barry
Parsons School of Design, The New School, USA

Hazel Clark
Parsons School of Design, The New School, USA

Jennifer Craik
Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Joanne Entwistle
King’s College London, UK

Reina Lewis
London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, UK

Simona Segre Reinach
University of Bologna, Italy

Carol Tulloch
Chelsea College of Art, University of the Arts London, UK

Editors

Susan B. Kaiser
University of California, Davis, USA
sbkaiser@ucdavis.edu

Anneke Smelik
Radboud University, the Netherlands
anneke.smelik@ru.nl

Associate Editors

Satarupa Bhattacharya
Exhibition Reviews Editor, Delhi, India
satarupabhattacharya00@gmail.com

Denise N. Green
Cornell University, USA
dng22@cornell.edu

Chamutal Leket
Book Reviews Editor, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
leketc@gmail.com

Michael Mamp
Central Michigan University, USA
mamp1me@cmich.edu

Kelly Reddy-Best
Iowa State University, USA
klrb@iastate.edu

Annamari Vänskä
Aalto University, Finland
annamari.vanska@aalto.fi

Founding Editor

Efrat Tseëlon
University of Leeds, UK
e.tseelon@leeds.ac.uk

 
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Editors

Susan B. Kaiser
University of California, Davis, USA
sbkaiser@ucdavis.edu

Anneke Smelik
Radboud University, the Netherlands
anneke.smelik@ru.nl

Associate Editors

Satarupa Bhattacharya
Exhibition Reviews Editor, Delhi, India
satarupabhattacharya00@gmail.com

Denise N. Green
Cornell University, USA
dng22@cornell.edu

Chamutal Leket
Book Reviews Editor, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
leketc@gmail.com

Michael Mamp
Central Michigan University, USA
mamp1me@cmich.edu

Kelly Reddy-Best
Iowa State University, USA
klrb@iastate.edu

Annamari Vänskä
Aalto University, Finland
annamari.vanska@aalto.fi

Founding Editor

Efrat Tseëlon
University of Leeds, UK
e.tseelon@leeds.ac.uk

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