Critical Studies in Fashion & Beauty
Critical Studies in Fashion & Beauty (Journal)
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.
Principal Editor
Susan B. Kaiser
University of California, Davis, USA
sbkaiser@ucdavis.edu
Assistant Editor
Nina L. Cole
University of California, Davis, USA
Associate Editors
Denise N. Green
Cornell University, USA
Michael Mamp
Central Michigan University, USA
Kelly Reddy-Best
Iowa State University, USA
Anneke Smelik
Radboud University, the Netherlands
Founding Editor
Efrat Tseëlon
University of Leeds, UK
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.
Principal Editor
Susan B. Kaiser
University of California, Davis, USA
sbkaiser@ucdavis.edu
Assistant Editor
Nina L. Cole
University of California, Davis, USA
Associate Editors
Denise N. Green
Cornell University, USA
Michael Mamp
Central Michigan University, USA
Kelly Reddy-Best
Iowa State University, USA
Anneke Smelik
Radboud University, the Netherlands
Founding Editor
Efrat Tseëlon
University of Leeds, UK
Principal Editor
Susan B. Kaiser
University of California, Davis, USA
sbkaiser@ucdavis.edu
Assistant Editor
Nina L. Cole
University of California, Davis, USA
Associate Editors
Denise N. Green
Cornell University, USA
Michael Mamp
Central Michigan University, USA
Kelly Reddy-Best
Iowa State University, USA
Anneke Smelik
Radboud University, the Netherlands
Founding Editor
Efrat Tseëlon
University of Leeds, UK
Principal Editor
Susan B. Kaiser
University of California, Davis, USA
sbkaiser@ucdavis.edu
Assistant Editor
Nina L. Cole
University of California, Davis, USA
Associate Editors
Denise N. Green
Cornell University, USA
Michael Mamp
Central Michigan University, USA
Kelly Reddy-Best
Iowa State University, USA
Anneke Smelik
Radboud University, the Netherlands
Founding Editor
Efrat Tseëlon
University of Leeds, UK
The Field
Critical studies of fashion and beauty employ 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 used to fashion appearances, and (c) the labour, conditions, and environmental impacts associated with the creation and distribution of the materials and products used to style, dress, and fashion diverse bodies in everyday life. A range (and mix) of theories and methods from the humanities, social sciences, and arts shed light on such understandings: interviews, ethnographies, conceptual essays, content analyses, discourse analyses, material analyses, speculative design, surveys, and so on, using critical and analytical lenses.
The Journal
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 (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.
Papers should be submitted online at https://www.intellectbooks.com/critical-studies-in-fashion-beauty. Prospective authors are welcome to contact the Editor in advance of submission (sbkaiser@ucdavis.edu).
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.
Principal Editor
Susan B. Kaiser
University of California, Davis, USA
sbkaiser@ucdavis.edu
Assistant Editor
Nina L. Cole
University of California, Davis, USA
Associate Editors
Denise N. Green
Cornell University, USA
Michael Mamp
Central Michigan University, USA
Kelly Reddy-Best
Iowa State University, USA
Anneke Smelik
Radboud University, the Netherlands
Founding Editor
Efrat Tseëlon
University of Leeds, UK
Editorial Board
Laura Bovone
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy
Hazel Clark
Parsons The New School for Design,USA
Sheila Cliffe
Jumonji Gakuen Women’s University, Japan
Peter Corrigan
University of New England, Australia
Maxine Craig
University of California, Davis, USA
Joanne Entwistle
King’s College London, UK
Joanne Finkelstein
University of Greenwich, UK
Tom Fisher
Nottingham Trent University, UK
Ana Marta González
Universidad de Navarra, Spain
Maria da Graça Guedes
University of Minho, Portugal
Elisabeth Hackspiel-Mikosch
AMD Akademie Mode & Design, Germany
Karen Tranberg Hansen
Northwestern University, USA
Kathleen M Higgins
The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Laura Hurd Clarke
University of British Columbia, Canada
Linda M Scott
Said Business School, UK
Simona Segre Reinach
University of Bologna, Italy
Lise Skov
Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Patrícia Soley-Beltran
University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Alkeline van Lenning
Tilburg University, the Netherlands
Sílvia Ventosa
Chief Curator of Barcelona's Textile Museum, Spain
Sophie Woodward
University of Manchester, UK
Advisory Board
Kenneth Gergen
Swarthmore College, USA
Sander L. Gilman
Emory University, USA
Daniel Miller
University College London, UK
Francesco Morace
Future Concept Lab, Italy
Susie Orbach
London School of Economics, UK
Jonathan Schroeder
Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
Michael Solomon
Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia, USA
Principal Editor
Susan B. Kaiser
University of California, Davis, USA
sbkaiser@ucdavis.edu
Assistant Editor
Nina L. Cole
University of California, Davis, USA
Associate Editors
Denise N. Green
Cornell University, USA
Michael Mamp
Central Michigan University, USA
Kelly Reddy-Best
Iowa State University, USA
Anneke Smelik
Radboud University, the Netherlands
Founding Editor
Efrat Tseëlon
University of Leeds, UK
Contents
- Volume (10): Issue (1)
- Cover date: 2019
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- Volume (9): Issue (1)
- Cover date: 2018
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- Volume (8): Issue (1)
- Cover date: 2017
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- Volume (8): Issue (2)
- Cover date: 2017
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- Volume (7): Issue (1)
- Cover date: 2016
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- Volume (7): Issue (2)
- Cover date: 2016
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- Volume (6): Issue (1)
- Cover date: 2015
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- Volume (6): Issue (2)
- Cover date: 2015
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- Volume (5): Issue (1)
- Cover date: 2014
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- Volume (5): Issue (2)
- Cover date: 2014
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- Volume (4): Issue (1)
- Cover date: 2013
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- Volume (3): Issue (1)
- Cover date: 2012
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- Volume (2): Issue (1)
- Cover date: 2011
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- Volume (1): Issue (1)
- Cover date: 2010
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- Volume (1): Issue (2)
- Cover date: 2010
Principal Editor
Susan B. Kaiser
University of California, Davis, USA
sbkaiser@ucdavis.edu
Assistant Editor
Nina L. Cole
University of California, Davis, USA
Associate Editors
Denise N. Green
Cornell University, USA
Michael Mamp
Central Michigan University, USA
Kelly Reddy-Best
Iowa State University, USA
Anneke Smelik
Radboud University, the Netherlands
Founding Editor
Efrat Tseëlon
University of Leeds, UK
