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Critical Studies in Fashion & Beauty 12.2 is out now!

Intellect is pleased to announce that Critical Studies in Fashion & Beauty 12.2 is out now!

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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 12.2

Introduction

Crisscrossing through critical fashion studies: Inclusive and interdisciplinary intersections

ANNEKE SMELIK AND SUSAN B. KAISER

Articles

The affect of fashion: An exploration of affective method

MAAIKE A. VAN TIENHOVEN AND ANNEKE SMELIK

Guys in a strange style: Subcultural masculinity of Soviet Stiliagi

ALLA MYZELEV

Fashioning Chinese feminism: Representations of women in the art history of modern China

SHUCHEN WANG

Photo Essay