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Critical Studies in Fashion & Beauty 12.1 is out now! Special Issue

Intellect is pleased to announce that Critical Studies in Fashion & Beauty 12.1 is out now!

Special Issue: ‘Fashioning Culture: Transforming Perspectives from Oceania’

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Aims and 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.

Issue 12.1

Editorial Foreword

NINA COLE, SUSAN B. KAISER AND ANNEKE SMELIK

Introduction

Fashioning culture: Transforming perspectives from Oceania

KALISSA ALEXEYEFF AND GEIR HENNING PRESTERUDSTUEN

Articles

Back to the future: Rewriting fashion history from the Cook Islands

KALISSA ALEXEYEFF

Transformation in homespun: Power and creativity in early nineteenth-century

Hawaiian cloth manufacturing

SARAH KUAIWA