Fashion, Culture and Identity
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Fashion, Culture and Identity by Fred Davis
What do our clothes say about who we are or who we think we are? How does the way we dress communicate messages about our identity? Is the desire to be in fashion universal, or is it unique to Western culture? How do fashions change? These are just a few of the intriguing questions Fred Davis sets out to answer in this provocative look at what we do with our clothes--and what they can do to us. Much of what we assume to be individual preference, Davis shows, really reflects deeper social and cultural forces. Ours is an ambivalent social world, characterized by tensions over gender roles, social status, and the expression of sexuality. Predicting what people will wear becomes a risky gamble when the link between private self and public persona can be so unstable.
Davis, Fred: -
Fred A. Davis is professor of sociology at the University of California, San Diego. He is a recognized authority on symbolic interactionist theory and on field ethnography as a basic method of social research. Besides this work he is the author of The Nursing Profession: Five Sociological Essays and Illness, Interaction and the Self.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780226138084 |
| ISBN 10 | 0226138089 |
| Title | Fashion, Culture and Identity |
| Author | Fred Davis |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | The University of Chicago Press |
| Year published | 1992-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 238 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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