Synopses & Reviews
Paul Jobling: 'Who's That Girl?: 'Alex Eats', A Case Study in Abjection and Identity in Contemporary Fashion Photography'
Elizabeth Wilson: 'Bohemian Dress and the Heroism of Everyday Life'
Gayle Veronica Fischer: 'A Matter of Wardrobe?
Mary Edwards Walker, a Nineteenth-Century American Cross-Dresser'
Linda B. Arthur: Hawaiian Women and Dress: The Holoku as an Expression of Ethnicity
Synopsis
Highlights in issue 3 include Rodmania, an essay on Dennis Rodman, by James C. Hall, University of Illinois at Chicago, and an article on abjection and identity in contemporary fashion photography by Paul Jobley, Kingston University, UK. Issue 4 is a special issue on Dress and Methodology in which contributors from a range of disciplines, including art history, dress history, cultural studies, and race and ethnic studies, will discuss how their disciplinary methodology enriches the study of dress and fashion.
About the Author
Valerie Steele is Chief Curator of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York.