Thinking through fashion : a guide to key theorists / Agnès Rocamora and Anneke Smelik (editors).

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Introduction to Thinking through Fashion — Karl Marx: Fashion and Capitalism — Sigmund Freud: More than a Fetish: Fashion and Psychoanalysis — Georg Simmel: The 'Philosophical Monet' — W.E.B. Du Bois: Fashion through the Veil — Walter Benjamin: Fashion, Modernity and the City Street — Mikhail Bakhtin: Fashioning the Grotesque Body.

Summary: "A vital update to the definitive guide to fashion and cultural theory, featuring four new chapters on key theorists Edward Said, bell hooks, Frantz Fanon and W.E.B. Du Bois, a new preface and updated introduction, and essential revisions to equip readers with the most up-to-date developments in fashion and fashion studies. Across 19 major thinkers from the 19th to the 21st century, the second edition of this crucial collection introduces readers to the process of thinking through rich cultural fields such as fashion with the help of social and cultural theory, and thinking through social and cultural theory with the help of fashion"-- Provided by publisher.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to Thinking through Fashion —
Karl Marx: Fashion and Capitalism —
Sigmund Freud: More than a Fetish: Fashion and Psychoanalysis —
Georg Simmel: The 'Philosophical Monet' —
W.E.B. Du Bois: Fashion through the Veil —
Walter Benjamin: Fashion, Modernity and the City Street —
Mikhail Bakhtin: Fashioning the Grotesque Body.

"A vital update to the definitive guide to fashion and cultural theory, featuring four new chapters on key theorists Edward Said, bell hooks, Frantz Fanon and W.E.B. Du Bois, a new preface and updated introduction, and essential revisions to equip readers with the most up-to-date developments in fashion and fashion studies. Across 19 major thinkers from the 19th to the 21st century, the second edition of this crucial collection introduces readers to the process of thinking through rich cultural fields such as fashion with the help of social and cultural theory, and thinking through social and cultural theory with the help of fashion"-- Provided by publisher.