Accessorizing the body : habits of being I /

"The first in the four-part series Habits of Being, charting the social, cultural, and political expression of clothing as seen on the street and in museums, in films and literature, and in advertisements and magazines, this volume features a close-up focus on accessories, the shoe, the hat, th...

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Other Authors: Giorcelli, Cristina (Editor), Rabinowitz, Paula (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2011.
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780816676682
0816676682
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • No frills, no-body, nobody / Manuela Fraire
  • The cult of femininity / Micol Fontana
  • Fashion's model bodies: a genealogy / Paola Colaiacomo
  • Wearing the body over the dress: Sonia Delaunay's fashionable clothes / Christina Giorcelli
  • Futurist accessories / Franca Zoccoli
  • Coco, Zelda, Sara, Daisy and Nicole: accessories for new ways of being a woman / Martha Banta
  • Precious objects: Laura Riding, her tiara, and the Petrarchan muse / Becky Peterson
  • Spanish women's clothing during the long post-civil war period / Giuliana Di Febo
  • The yellow star accessorized: ironic discourse in fatelessness by Imre Kertész / Zsófia Bán
  • Terra Divisa/Terra Divina: (T/E/A/R) / Maria Damon
  • Black hattitude / Jeffrey C. Stewart
  • Barbara Stanwyck's anklet: the other shoe / Paula Rabinowitz
  • The cinematic jewel: fetishizing the goods / Vito Zagarrio
  • Enchanted sandals: Italian shoes and the post-World War II international scene / Vittoria C. Caratozzolo.