
Body Style
Theresa M. Winge(Author)
Berg Publishers
Published on 1. June 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-1-84788-001-7 (ISBN)
Description
Body Style reveals the subcultural body as a site for understanding subcultural identity, resistance, agency, and fashion. Analyzed, theorized, politicized, and sensationalized, the subcultural body functions as a framework where individuals build a sense of self and subcultural identity. Drawing on specific subcultural examples and interviews with members, Body Style explores the subcultural body and its style within global culture.
Body Style is the result of over twelve years of research examining these intersections within specific urban subcultures, including Urban Tribals, Modern Primitives, Punks, Cybers, Industrials, Skaters, and others. Divided into three main sections on subcultural body history, subcultural body identity and subcultural body styles, this book will be of particular interest to students of dress and fashion as well as those coming to subculture from sociology and cultural studies.
Body Style is the result of over twelve years of research examining these intersections within specific urban subcultures, including Urban Tribals, Modern Primitives, Punks, Cybers, Industrials, Skaters, and others. Divided into three main sections on subcultural body history, subcultural body identity and subcultural body styles, this book will be of particular interest to students of dress and fashion as well as those coming to subculture from sociology and cultural studies.
Reviews / Votes
Body Style is a welcome project, at once accessible to students and the general public and relevant to professional anthropologists... We welcome more attention to the cultural variations within Western societies and to the complex and controversial interplay between Western societies and (at least imagined versions of) non-Western ones... The book gives us pause to think about the extremes to which people will go, and perhaps must go in the post-modern era, to make themselves. -- Jack David Eller * Anthropology Review Database *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
30 bw illus
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
254 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84788-001-7 (9781847880017)
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Person
Theresa M. Winge is Assistant Professor of Fashion Design and Theory in the Department of Art, Art History, and Design, Michigan State University. In recent years, Winge's research has focused on the socio-cultural aspects and non-verbal communication of subcultural dress.
Content
Table of Contents
List of Images
Acknowledgments
Preface
Chapter One: Introduction to Subcultural Body Style
Chapter Two: Subcultural Body Style History
Chapter Three: Subcultural Body Style and Identity
Chapter Four: Subcultural Body Style
Chapter Five: Future of Subcultural Body Style
Notes
Further Readings
References
Index
List of Images
Acknowledgments
Preface
Chapter One: Introduction to Subcultural Body Style
Chapter Two: Subcultural Body Style History
Chapter Three: Subcultural Body Style and Identity
Chapter Four: Subcultural Body Style
Chapter Five: Future of Subcultural Body Style
Notes
Further Readings
References
Index