Subject Area: Women's and Gender Studies<br/>This course can also be studied in the following specialisations: History<br/><br/>This course will focus on the many meanings of dress from daily attire, national dress, and religious costume, to high fashion across a wide gamut of cultures. Specific topics include gender and identity, inventing national dress, deportment, dress as concealment and adornment, shaping the body (such as footbinding and the corset), haute couture, and the politics of dress. The relationships between concealment and etiquette, cloth holiness and magic, dress and undress, and the manipulation of costume for political agendas will also be explored. Case studies will... -- Course Website
Prerequisites: 30 units of credit at Level 1
