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Books on Fashion Theory & Social Issues in Dress

Fashion Classics from Carlyle to Barthes (Dress, Body, Culture) Books
 
The Rise of Fashion A Reader Books Daniel Leonhard Purdy

The Clothed Body (Dress, Body, Culture): Books: Patrizia Calefato,Lisa Adams

Dress and Morality

The Japanese Revolution in Paris Fashion (Dress, Body, Culture)

Fashion Theory [MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTION]

Couture Culture : A Study in Modern Art and Fashion

The Fashion of Architecture

Goth: Identity, Style and Subculture (Dress, Body, Culture Series)

Fashion Foundations: Early Writings on Fashion and Dress (Dress, Body, Culture)

Contemporary Costume Film: Space, Place and the Past

Vested Interests

The Three-Piece Suit and Modern Masculinity

Consuming Fashion: Adoring the Transnational Body (Dress, Body, Culture Series)

The Dress of Women: A Critical Introduction to the Symbolism and Sociology of Clothing

Salaula: The World of Secondhand Clothing and Zambia

Wedding Dress across Cultures (Dress, Body, Culture)

Clothing the Pacific

Fashion and Its Social Agendas: Class, Gender, and Identity in Clothing
Fashion, Desire and Anxiety: Image and Morality in the 20th Century

Against Fashion: Clothing as Art, 1850-1930

Fashion As Communication

The Fashioned Body: Fashion, Dress and Modern Social Theory

Fetish : Fashion, Sex, and Power
 
The Beauty Myth : How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
 
Dress and Popular Culture
Extreme Beauty: The Body Transformed

Hairstyles and Fashion : A Hairdresser's History of Paris, 1910-1920 (Dress, Body, Culture)

Survival of the Prettiest : The Science of Beauty
Sex and Suits : The Evolution of Modern Dress (Kodansha Globe)
Seeing Through Clothes

Hair : Its Power and Meaning in Asian Cultures

Fabric of Vision

Nothing in Itself: Complexions of Fashion (Theories of Contemporary Culture)
Fashion Theory : The Journal of Dress, Body, Culture : Volume 3 Issue 4 December of 1999
 
The Empire of Fashion
(un) Fashion

Reshaping the Female Body : The Dilemma of Cosmetic Surgery

Veil : Modesty, Privacy and Resistance (Dress, Body, Culture Series)

Fashion Cultures : Theories, Explorations, and Analysis
Fashion, Culture, and Identity
Fashion and Its Social Agendas : Class, Gender, and Identity in Clothing
 
Paris Fashion : A Cultural History
Folk Dress in Europe and Anatolia : Beliefs About Protection and Fertility (Dress, Body, Culture Series)
Tigersprung: Fashion in Modernity
Fur Nation: From the Beaver to Brigitte Bardot (Writing Corporealities)

Dandies : Fashion and Finesse in Art and Culture

The Culture of Sewing : Gender, Consumption and Homedressmaking (Dress, Body, Culture Series)

Religion, Dress and the Body (Dress, Body, Culture Series)

Beauty and Business : Commerce, Gender, and Culture in Modern America (Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture)

Undressing Religion : Commitment and Conversion from a Cross-Cultural Perspective (Dress, Body, Culture Series)

Fashioning the Frame : Boundaries, Dress and the Body (Dress, Body, Culture Series)

Consuming Fashion : Adoring the Transnational Body (Dress, Body, Culture Series)

Dress, Gender and Cultural Change : Asian-American and African-American Rites of Passage (Dress, Body, Culture Series)

Inside Subculture : The Postmodern Meaning of Style (Dress, Body, Culture Series)

Dressing Up Debutantes : Pageantry and Glitz in Texas (Dress, Body, Culture Series)

Reconstructing Italian Fashion : America and the Development of the Italian Fashion Industry (Dress, Body, Culture Series)

Appearance and Power (Dress, Body, Culture Series)

Dress and Gender : Making and Meaning in Cultural Contexts (Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Women, Vol 2)

Transvestites : The Erotic Drive to Cross-Dress (New Concepts in Human Sexuality)

Beads and Bead Makers : Gender, Material Culture and Meaning (Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Women Series)

Dress and Ethnicity : Change Across Space and Time (Berg Ethnic Identities Series)

Dress and Morality

Fashion and Its Social Agendas : Class, Gender, and Identity in Clothing

Women Who Become Men : Albanian Sworn Virgins (Dress, Body, Culture Series)

Losing It : False Hopes and Fat Profits in the Diet Industry

Body Outlaws : Young Women Write About Body Image and Identity

Fat and Proud : The Politics of Size
Nothing to Lose: A Guide to Sane Living in a Larger Body
Am I Thin Enough Yet? : The Cult of Thinness and the Commercialization of Identity
 
Tipping the Scales of Justice : Fighting Weight Based Discrimination
 
Cloth, Dress and Art Patronage in Africa (Dress, Body, Culture Series)
 
Inside Subculture : The Postmodern Meaning of Style (Dress, Body, Culture Series)
 
Fashion Spreads : Word and Image in Fashion Photography Since 1980 (Dress, Body, Culture Series)
 
Orlan : Millennial Female (Dress, Body, Culture Series)
 
The Fashion Business : Theory, Practice, Image (Dress, Body, Culture Series)
 
Pantaloons and Power : A Nineteenth-Century Dress Reform in the United States
 
The Hidden Consumer : Masculinities, Fashion and City Life 1860-1914 (Studies in Design and Material Culture)
 
Hinterland Warriors and Military Dress : European Empires and Exotic Uniforms (Dress, Body, Culture)
 

Silk & Religion: An Exploration of Material Life & the Thought of People, A. D. 600-1200

Men of Color : Fashion, History, Fundamentals

The Language of Clothes

The Culture of Clothing : Dress and Fashion in the 'Ancien Regime' (Past and Present Publications)

'New Raiments of Self' : African American Clothing in the Antebellum South (Dress, Body, Culture Series)

The Male Body : A New Look at Men in Public and Private
The Perfectible Body : The Western Ideal of Male Physical Development
 
Don We Now Our Gay Apparel : Gay Men's Dress in the Twentieth Century
 
Dress and Morality

Feeding the Eye : Essays

Fashion and Eroticism

Catwalking : A History of the Fashion Model

The Cultural Politics of Fur

Fashion Theory : The Journal of Dress, Body, Culture Issue 3-September

Fashion Theory : The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture Issue 2

The Culture of Fashion : A New History of Fashionable Dress (Studies in Design and Material Culture)

The Fashion System

Paris Fashion : A Cultural History

Theatre and Fashion : Oscar Wilde to the Suffragettes

Fashion and Its Social Agendas : Class, Gender, and Identity in Clothing

The Female Economy : The Millinery and Dressmaking Trades, 1860-1930 (Working Class in American History)

Women's Work : The First 20,000 Years : Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times

Clothing and Difference : Embodied Identities in Colonial and Post-Colonial Africa (Body, Commodity, Text)

Defining Dress : Dress As Object, Meaning and Identity (Studies in Design and Material Culture)

Star Trek Fans and Costume Art (Folk Art and Artists Series)

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