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Fashion and Motherhood : Image, Material, Identity by Laura Snelgrove (2025, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-101350276731
ISBN-139781350276734
eBay Product ID (ePID)22071153535
Product Key Features
Number of Pages256 Pages
Publication NameFashion and Motherhood : Image, Material, Identity
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2025
SubjectHistory & Criticism, Fashion & Accessories, Social History
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaDesign, History
AuthorLaura Snelgrove
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight14.1 Oz
Item Length9.1 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition23/eng/20240401
Reviews"A fabulous collection of essays offering up new perspectives and debates, whether that be depictions of good and bad mothers; attitudes to fatness or 'stoutness'; or contemporary reflections on intergenerational dress and mothering." -- Jacki Willson, University of Leeds, UK "This book is a joy - and long overdue. In addressing motherhood, the authors bring insightful and serious attention to a subject and a condition that has been overlooked in fashion studies ... For those of us who are mothers - and for those who are not - this book validates the significance of this most liminal and most essential human experience for our greater understanding of bodies, identities, culture, fashion, and dress." -- Hazel Clark, Parsons School of Design, The New School, New York, USA "A very timely collection of on the neglected experience of motherhood as experienced and represented through fashion in many arenas - film, TV and celebrity, and popular music - combining personal reflections with provocative insights on the many constructions of motherhood through fashion ... Fascinating reading." -- Joanne Entwistle, Kings College London, UK
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal391.2
Table Of ContentList of Illustrations Preface Foreword Acknowledgments Fashion and Motherhood: Introduction Part I: Image Introduction Mediated Role Models Introduction 1. Dress to Repress: Fashioning Motherhood in Semi-Authoritarian Hong Kong Pui-sze Leung and Kin-long Tong 2. Beyoncé: Mistress of Slaying Oshun Darnell-Jamal Lisby 3. The Hidden Life of Kylie: Fashioning a Private (and Privatized) Celebrity Pregnancy Maureen Lehto Brewster Fictional Mothers Onscreen Introduction 4. The Fashionable Mother as Dangerous Contradiction in Telugu Film Indira Jalli 5. Fashion and Motherhood at War: A Costume Analysis of The Zookeeper's Wife Morolake Dairo 6. The Fascinance of the Maternal Gaze: Kate and Laura Mulleavy's Woodshock Kimberly Lamm Part II: Material Introduction 7. "The Corset Crusade": Dress Reformers and the Maternity Corset Karen Case 8. Design for Borderline Bodies Lauren Downing Peters 9. Mother's Milk Is Best of All: Breastfeeding Garments from 1880 to 1930 Claire Salmon 10. Rei Kawakubo and the Bound Pregnant Body Katrina Orsini Part III: Identity Introduction 11. "Mommy Fashion is Still Fashion": U.S. Style Guides for Pregnant Women and Mothers in the Twenty-First Century Holly Kent 12. Out of Time: Constant Change, Maternity Dressing, and Pregnancy in Lockdown Sarah Garland 13. "Ole Rag 'n' Lumber": Intergenerational, Gendered, and Classed Relationships with Clothing, from Rag 'n' Bone to Depop Liza Betts Appendix: Sexy Mamas: Liz Lange and the Golden Age of Designing for Pregnancy Pamela Roskin List of Contributors Index
SynopsisMotherhood, whether achieved through biological or other means, is not a rare experience; dressing oneself, even less so. The two phenomena are intimately linked, as both occur on and to the private body, and are also fully subject to social pressures and the changing tides of public opinion. They also, for anyone who experiences motherhood, define one another and work together to shape an individual's identity and place in their culture. This rich collection explores the essential question of how motherhood and fashion interact, interrogating their relationships to power, misogyny, temporality, longing and embodiment, among other themes. The 13 essays examine representations on film, in popular print and literature; they use images, narrative and material evidence from the past to excavate the historical cleavages in how mothers have been expected to hide, display, share and sacrifice their bodies. An international range of scholars explores the 19th to the 21st centuries, tracing how fashion and motherhood have operated as powerfully interdependent experiences and continue to determine how women are judged and corralled, yet also find meaning, connection and strength.
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