Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-302) and index.
Contents:
Barbie magazine and the aesthetic commodification of girls' bodies / Ingeborg Majer O'Sickey -- This year's girl : a personal/critical history of Twiggy / Linda Benn DeLibero -- A woman's two bodies : fashion magazines, consumerism, and feminism / Leslie W. Rabine -- No bumps, no excrescences : Amelia Earhart's failed flight into fashions / Karla Jay -- Sonia Rykiel in translation / Hélène Cixous -- From Celebration / Sonia Rykiel -- Off the (w)rack : fashion and pain in the work of Diane Arbus / Carol Shloss -- An erotics of representation : fashioning the icon with Man Ray / Mary Ann Caws -- Seduction and elegance : the new woman of fashion in silent cinema / Maureen Turim -- Madonna, fashion and identity / Douglas Kellner -- Fragments of a fashionable discourse / Kaja Silverman -- Women recovering our clothes / Iris Marion Young -- Fashion and the homospectatorial look / Diana Fuss -- Terrorist chic : style and domination in contemporary Ireland / Cheryl Herr -- Paris or perish : the plight of the Latin American Indian in a westernized world / Barbara Brodman -- Tribalism in effect / Andrew Ross.
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