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. 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.
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
Exhibition Reviews Editor, Aalto University, Finland
annamari.vanska@aalto.fi
Founding Editor
Efrat Tseëlon
University of Leeds, UK
e.tseelon@leeds.ac.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.
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
Exhibition Reviews Editor, 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
Exhibition Reviews Editor, 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
Exhibition Reviews Editor, Aalto University, Finland
annamari.vanska@aalto.fi
Founding Editor
Efrat Tseëlon
University of Leeds, UK
e.tseelon@leeds.ac.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. 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.
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.
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
Exhibition Reviews Editor, 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, 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 Wellington, New Zealand
Sarah Gilligan
Northumbria University, UK
Aida Hurtado
University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Kimberly Jenkins
Ryerson 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
Exhibition Reviews Editor, Aalto University, Finland
annamari.vanska@aalto.fi
Founding Editor
Efrat Tseëlon
University of Leeds, UK
e.tseelon@leeds.ac.uk
Contents
- Volume (12): Issue (1)
- Cover date: 2021
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- Volume (12): Issue (2)
- Cover date: 2021
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- Volume (11): Issue (1)
- Cover date: 2020
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- Volume (11): Issue (2)
- Cover date: 2020
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- Volume (10): Issue (1)
- Cover date: 2019
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- Volume (10): Issue (2)
- 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
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
Exhibition Reviews Editor, Aalto University, Finland
annamari.vanska@aalto.fi
Founding Editor
Efrat Tseëlon
University of Leeds, UK
e.tseelon@leeds.ac.uk
