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Picturing the Woman-Child
Morna Laing
其他書名
Fashion, Feminism and the Female Gaze
出版
Bloomsbury Publishing
, 2021-01-28
主題
Design / Fashion & Accessories
Design / History & Criticism
Photography / Subjects & Themes / Fashion
Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory
Social Science / Customs & Traditions
Photography / General
ISBN
1350059617
9781350059610
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=8ZYXEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
EBook
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註釋
The childlike character of ideal femininity has long been critiqued by feminists, from Mary Wollstonecraft to Simone de Beauvoir. Yet, women continue to be represented as childlike in the western fashion media, despite the historical connotations of inferiority. This book questions why such images still hold appeal to contemporary women, after three, or even four, waves of feminism.
Focusing on the period of 1990–2015,
Picturing the Woman-Child
traces the evolution of childlike femininity in British fashion magazines, including
Vogue
,
i-D
and
Lula, Girl of my Dreams
. These images draw upon a network of references, from Kinderwhore and Lolita to Alice in Wonderland and the
femme-enfant
of Surrealism.
Alongside analysis of fashion photography, the book presents the findings of original research into audience reception. Inviting contemporary women to comment on images of the 'woman-child' provides an insight into the meaning of this figure as well as an evaluation of theory on the 'female gaze'. Both scholarly and accessible, the book paves the way for future studies on how readers make sense of fashion imagery.