Between Oppression and Subversion. Fashion as the Potential Branch to Express Non-Normative Corporeality Cover Image

Między opresją a subwersją – moda jako potencjalna przestrzeń wyrazu nienormatywnej cielesności
Between Oppression and Subversion. Fashion as the Potential Branch to Express Non-Normative Corporeality

Author(s): Monika Rawska
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Photography, Visual Arts, Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego
Keywords: Non-Normative Corporeality; fashion studies

Summary/Abstract: The author analyses the presence of androgyny and transsexuality mainly in fashion industry which fashion journalists and commentators like to see as a milestone in the fight for equality, stressing the ambivalence of marketing techniques and arguing that – similarly to Erving Goffman’s category of stigma – apart from having subversive potential it can also have an oppresive downside.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 14 (21)
  • Page Range: 111-121
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish