Fashion and Motherhood

Image, Material, Identity
Herausgeber: Snelgrove, Laura

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Motherhood, whether achieved through biological or other means, is not a rare experience; dressing oneself, even less so. The two phenomena are intimately linked, as both occur on and to the private body, and are also fully subject to social pressures and the changing tides of public opinion. They also, for anyone who experiences motherhood, define one another and work together to shape an individual's identity and place in their culture. This collection explores the essential question of how motherhood and fashion interact, interrogating their relationships to power, misogyny, temporality, longing and embodiment, among other themes. These 18 essays examine representations on film, in popular print and literature; they use images, narrative and material evidence from the past to excavate the historical cleavages in how mothers have been expected to hide, display, share and sacrifice their bodies. An international range of scholars explore the 19th to the 21st centuries, tracing how fashion and motherhood have operated as powerfully interdependent experiences and continue to determine how women are judged and corralled, yet also find meaning, connection and strength.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 652g
• ISBN-13: 9781350276697
• ISBN-10: 1350276693
• Artikelnr.: 67609341

Autorenporträt

Laura Snelgrove is an editor for academic and scholarly work. She works as an independent fashion studies scholar researching and writing for digital projects, has previously taught university courses in fashion studies and is the editor-in-chief of The Fashion Studies Journal.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Preface Foreword Acknowledgments Fashion and
Motherhood: Introduction Part I: Image Introduction Mediated Role Models
Introduction 1. Dress to Repress: Fashioning Motherhood in
Semi-Authoritarian Hong Kong Pui-sze Leung and Kin-long Tong 2. Beyoncé:
Mistress of Slaying Oshun Darnell-Jamal Lisby 3. The Hidden Life of Kylie:
Fashioning a Private (and Privatized) Celebrity Pregnancy Maureen Lehto
Brewster Fictional Mothers Onscreen Introduction 4. The Fashionable Mother
as Dangerous Contradiction in Telugu Film Indira Jalli 5. Fashion and
Motherhood at War: A Costume Analysis of The Zookeeper's Wife Morolake
Dairo 6. The Fascinance of the Maternal Gaze: Kate and Laura Mulleavy's
Woodshock Kimberly Lamm Part II: Material Introduction 7. "The Corset
Crusade": Dress Reformers and the Maternity Corset Karen Case 8. Design for
Borderline Bodies Lauren Downing Peters 9. Mother's Milk Is Best of All:
Breastfeeding Garments from 1880 to 1930 Claire Salmon 10. Rei Kawakubo and
the Bound Pregnant Body Katrina Orsini Part III: Identity Introduction 11.
"Mommy Fashion is Still Fashion": U.S. Style Guides for Pregnant Women and
Mothers in the Twenty-First Century Holly Kent 12. Out of Time: Constant
Change, Maternity Dressing, and Pregnancy in Lockdown Sarah Garland 13.
"Ole Rag 'n' Lumber": Intergenerational, Gendered, and Classed
Relationships with Clothing, from Rag 'n' Bone to Depop Liza Betts
Appendix: Sexy Mamas: Liz Lange and the Golden Age of Designing for
Pregnancy Pamela Roskin List of Contributors Index