Matter over Mind? Gender’s Subordination to Class Dynamics: A Study on Fashion Cover Image

Matter over Mind? Gender’s Subordination to Class Dynamics: A Study on Fashion
Matter over Mind? Gender’s Subordination to Class Dynamics: A Study on Fashion

Author(s): Ada Efftimova
Subject(s): History, Anthropology, Social Sciences, Gender Studies, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Sociology, Gender history, Culture and social structure , Sociology of Culture, Sociology of Art
Published by: Великотърновски университет „Св. св. Кирил и Методий”
Keywords: fashion; class; gender; social capital; cultural capital; consumer; commodification.

Summary/Abstract: This is an analysis of the interrelation between the social categories of gender and class in fashion, influenced by contemporary sociological theories on intersectionality and the author’s own ethnographic research carried out throughout the 2024/25 Fashion and Gender course led by prof. Romana Andò in the Fashion Studies Master’s programme at Sapienza University in Rome. The paper offers a Marxist perspective on the gendered commodification of fashion consumer experiences, leaning on the works of Goffman, Bourdieu, Barthes, and Benjamin, among others.

  • Issue Year: 10/2026
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 110-118
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: English
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