Edited by Glyn Davis, University of St Andrews, UK & Laura Guy, The Glasgow School of Art, UK
Fashion, Identity, Image
Paul Jobling, Parsons New School, Paris, France, Philippa Nesbitt, Ryerson University, Canada & Angelene Wong, Parsons New School, Paris, France
The first book devoted to the exploration of queer print cultures in Europe, illustrated throughout with unearthed material from archives and personal collections. Including manifestos, flyers, posters, zines and other forms of print media, it features interviews with those responsible for making, distributing or archiving queer print alongside theoretical essays that set particular publications and producers in context. This book examines how the production and dissemination of queer print intersected with the emergence of LGBTQ+ activism and identifies both the significant contribution that queer print has made to histories of LGBTQ+ struggle and to the history of print design.
How has the fashion industry responded to turn-ofthe-millennium non-binary identities? Do they have a supportive or exploitative relationship with queer, trans and ageing subjects? Fashion, Identity, Image unpacks these questions and many more in relation to clothing and representation, identity and body politics in British, European and American culture between 1990 and 2020. Jobling, Nesbitt and Wong have produced a timely and probing consideration of the impact of marginalised and non-binary groups on fashionable identities, embracing queer and trans activism, biotechnologies and the ageing body.
UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 256 pages • 100 colour illus PB 9781350273498 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350158665 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781350158672 • £22.49 / $29.96 ePdf 9781350158689 • £22.49 / $29.96 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 224 pages • 40 colour illus PB 9781350183209 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350183216 • £65.00 / $90.00 ePub 9781350183230 • £19.79 / $26.05 ePdf 9781350183223 • £19.79 / $26.05 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Dress Cultures Reina Lewis, London College of Fashion, UK and Elizabeth Wilson, UK
Fashion in Altermodern China
Feng Jie, Southwest University of China, China Fashion in Altermodern China examines key features and particularities of women’s fashion within the cultural and political context of contemporary China. While demonstrating that global brands and styles heavily influence Chinese consumer trends, it equally argues that the Chinese fashion ‘system’ is formed of its own internal logics and emergent trends. For women in contemporary China, the flux of available fashions is experienced in a more open neutral manner than is typically described in current scholarship; and through incorporating both Western and Asian philosophies, this book reveals new ways to understand how women engage in fashion in China today. UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 160 pages • 5 bw illus HB 9781350200067 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781350200098 • £67.50 / $88.59 ePdf 9781350200081 • £67.50 / $88.59 Series: Dress Cultures • Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Silhouettes of the Soul
Meditations on Fashion, Religion, and Subjectivity Edited by Otto von Busch, Parsons School of Design, USA & Jeanine Viau, University of Central Florida, USA What is the relationship between the soul and the second skin - or clothing - in the making of identity and belief? How does religious and political belonging, respectability, and resistance impact on the way in which we dress? Historically, fashionable dress and religion have been positioned as polar opposites; Silhouettes of the Soul brings them together, placing them in conversation with each other, moving beyond traditional, social scientific and historical analysis of religious attire and adornment to approach the topics from a variety of approaches and disciplines and across regional, social and religious locations. UK February 2022 • US February 2022 • 208 pages • 17 bw illus HB 9781350179905 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350179929 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350179912 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: Dress Cultures • Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Fashioning the Afropolis
Histories, Materialities and Aesthetic Practices
V I S U A L A R T S - Design / Fashion & Culture
Queer Print in Europe
Edited by Kerstin Pinther, Ludwig Maximilian University, Germany, Kristin Kastner, Ludwig Maximilian University, Germany & Basile Ndjio, University of Douala, Central Africa Fashioning the Afropolis provides a range of innovative perspectives on global fashion, design, dress, photography, and the body in some of the major cities in sub-Saharan Africa, with a focus on Lagos, Johannesburg, Dakar, and Douala. 'Fashion' and 'city' have not been systematically related to each other in the African context and, for too long, a western-centric gaze has dominated scholarship, resulting in the perception of Africa as provincial and its visual arts and textile cultures as static and folkloristic. Leading scholars offer an updated foundation on which to base new, exciting research on sub-Saharan fashion, challenging perceptions and offering new insights. UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 272 pages • 70 bw illus HB 9781350179523 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350179547 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350179530 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: Dress Cultures • Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Reading Marie al-Khazen’s Photographs
Gender, Photography, Mandate Lebanon Yasmine Nachabe Taan, Lebanese American University, Lebanon In the first book to comprehensively explore the photography of Marie al-Khazen, Yasmine Nachabe Taan reveals images which demonstrate formal experimentation and show people from different classes, cultures and gender groups comfortably sharing the same space. The book examines how notions of gender and class are inscribed in the photographs and reveals that while some photographs portray conventional lives in Lebanese villages, others are charged with symbols of female emancipation to today’s viewers. UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 192 pages • 53 bw illus PB 9781350191624 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781788314800 ePub 9781350111585 • £67.50 / $88.59 ePdf 9781350111578 • £67.50 / $88.59 Series: Dress Cultures • Bloomsbury Visual Arts
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