Overview
- Considers how fashioned bodies enact resistant strategies of protest
- Explores fashion's intersection with race and gender discourses where colonialism, capitalism, and embodiment are linked
- Offers a synthesis of embodiment and resistance as seen through Orientalist and Critical Race Theories
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Fashion and the Body (PSFB)
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About this book
This edited book brings together new perspectives on fashion, the body, and politics. The intention of this collection is to explore the cultural intersection between bodies, fashion, and transgression, often in the most unlikely of locations. Bodies are political players in culture and the authors gathered here ask a range of pressing questions. What role do fashioned bodies play in resistance, in meeting governmental boundaries or institutional power? Arguably, fashion is an aspect of modern warfare and style can defend and attack in cultural space. So, how do fashioned bodies occupy the grey area between social control and the resistance to power? This book is interdisciplinary and international, with contributors situated within a broad range of disciplines including Art History and Critical Practice, Cultural Studies, Fashion Critical Studies, Film and Literary Studies, Performance Studies, Politics and International Studies, Sociology, Gender, Queer, LGBTI, andCritical Race Studies.
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Dangerous Surfaces
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Embodiment and Abstract Boundaries
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Reviews
“Dangerous Bodies is an excellent interdisciplinary collection focusing on issues of transgression and the fashioned body. The chapters explore the role of sartorial politics in challenging various forms of hegemony and authority. How can dress challenge oppression? How does it become a point of resistance? How can it create spaces of belonging? These are some of the key issues Mahawatte and Willson’s book deftly responds to." (Rohit K. Dasgupta, Senior Lecturer, University of Glasgow, UK)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Royce Mahawatte is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London and a member of the faculty at NYU London, UK. He is the author of George Eliot and the Gothic Novel (2013) and has published journal articles in Women’s Writing and Sexualities, and the chapters ‘Fashion and Adornment’ in A Cultural History of Hair (2018) and 'The Sad Fortunes of ‘Stylish Things’: George Eliot and the Languages of Fashion' in Communicating Transcultural Fashion Narratives (2018). He is also Director of Research at the think tank Fashion Roundtable, and during 2020-2021 was a Heinz Heinen Fellow at the Centre for Dependency and Slavery Studies, University of Bonn, Germany.
Jacki Willson is Associate Professor in Performance and Gender in the School of Performance and Cultural Industries at the University of Leeds, UK. She has published two monographs – TheHappy Stripper: Pleasure and Politics of the New Burlesque (2008) and Being Gorgeous: Feminism, Sexuality and the Pleasures of the Visual (2015) – and one edited collection, Revisiting the Gaze: The Fashioned Body and the Politics of Looking (2020). She is Principal Investigator of a three-year AHRC-funded project, Fabulous Femininities: Extravagant Costume and Transformative Thresholds (2020-).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Dangerous Bodies
Book Subtitle: New Global Perspectives on Fashion and Transgression
Editors: Royce Mahawatte, Jacki Willson
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Fashion and the Body
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06208-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-06207-0Published: 12 January 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-06210-0Published: 12 January 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-06208-7Published: 11 January 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 237
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: Culture and Gender, Audio-Visual Culture, Politics and Gender, Performing Arts