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Appearances

Memory, History, Clothes

Carol Dyhouse author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Unicorn Publishing Group

Publishing:1st Mar '25

£25.00

This title is due to be published on 1st March, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

Appearances cover

What does it mean to obsess about clothes and appearances? For some of us, deciding what to wear can involve tension and torment as well as delight. What do we mean by ‘looking classy’ or ‘power dressing’? What are the connections – or contradictions – between dress and desire, glamour and feminism? Do our choices reflect or challenge social values and constraints in women’s lives? Appearances is both memoir and cultural history. It considers attitudes to personal appearance through four generations of women in the author’s family, weaving memory through a wide-ranging exploration of fashion, femininity and feminism in the recent past.

ISBN: 9781916846685

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

176 pages