Cultural and Historical studies assingmentOrder DescriptionASSESSMENT AND PROJECT BRIEFFashionprovides individuals with a key means through which to manage their identities in the context of everyday life. Bennett, A.( 2005). Culture and EverydayLife. London: Sage. p. 98.Discuss this statement with reference to individual examples.Your essay (2000 words) must be presented in academic format, with bibliography and references.Your answer should include:
Reference to key themes, debates and concepts covered in the unit
Referenced quotations (using Harvard referencing) from at least four academic texts at least two of which should be from the unit Reader to support your argument
A critical analysis of examples relevant to your degree subject
The conventions of academic writingPlease note there is a required presentation style for essays:
Assessments should be printed on white/cream paper, using a formal font (eg: Ariel, font size 11).
Lines must be double-spaced.Fashion and GenderKey textsBarnard, M. (2002) Fashion, clothing, sex and gender (I and II), in M. Barnard Fashion as Communication London: Routledge.
Very short, very useful, overview of discussions regarding gender and fashionEdwards, T. (2006) What are you looking at? Masculinity, performativity and fashion, in Cultures of Masculinity London: Routledge.
Useful discussion of masculinity and fashion in relationship to the idea of performativityKaiser, S. B. (2012) Gendering Fashion, Fashioning Gender: Beyond Binaries, in Fashion and Cultural Studies. Oxford: Berg.
Very useful discussion of the relationship between fashion and gender.? Negrin, L. (2008) Feminism and Fashion, in Appearance and Identity: Fashioning the body in postmodernism Basingstoke: Macmillan.
Useful discussion of the relationship between feminism and fashion, sensitive to distinctions between second and third wave approachesFurther ReadingBeckingham, C. (2005) Is Fashion a Womans Right? Brighton: Sussex Academic Press.
Very useful discussion of the relationship between feminist values and fashion in both historical and contemporary contexts, concluding that it is a potential sourceof joy.? Black, P. (2004) Ordinary people come through here Introducing the work of the beauty salon, in The Beauty Industry: Gender, Culture, Pleasure. London:Routledge.
Excellent analysis of the beauty salon and a thoughtful riposte to its criticsBuckley, C. and H. Fawcett. (2002) Fashioning the Feminine: Representation and Womens Fashion from the Fin de Siecle to the Present London: I.B. Tauris.
Explores the ambiguous sexual politics of fashion in a number of twentieth century historical contexts chapter 5 which explores young womens fashion incontemporary Newcastle is particularly relevant.
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Church-Gibson, P. (2000) Redressing the Balance: Patriarchy, Postmodernism and Feminism, in S. Bruzzi and P. Church-Gibson (eds.) Fashion Cultures: Theories,Explorations and Analysis London: Routledge.
Discussion of the shifting, and often ambivalent, feminist view of fashion.Craik, J. (1994) The Face of Fashion: Cultural Studies in Fashion London: Routledge.
Multi-perspectival study of fashion, focusing on questions of gender; sceptical of assertions that fashion is per se exploitative.?????
These are the academic key texs that at least 2 to be referenced , when I talked with my teacher I said my topic will be gender and it will be about flat shoes beingfashionable for womens my teacher suggested , stay focused on one topic , I want to see draft before I see final document . Thanks