Fashion, Agency, and Empowerment

Annette Lynch is the Director of the School of Applied Human Sciences and a professor of Textiles and Apparel at the University of Northern Iowa, USA.Katalin Medvedev is a professor at the University of Georgia, USA.

• List of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionFashion, Agency and EmpowermentAnnette Lynch and Katalin MedvedevFashion as Challenge and Empowerment Chapter 1The Beauty Divide: Black Millennial Women Seek Agency with Makeup Art Cosmetics (MAC)Jaleesa Reed and Katalin MedvedevChapter 2Kangol Kool: Stylized Hats and the Performance of Black DandyismDerrick WilliamsChapter 3Challenging the Gender Binary in Bond Films: Bond Girls, Female Villains, and JamesLaureen GibsonChapter 4Menswear in the Millennium: Bending the Gender BinaryParker Bennett Dialogues between Dress and Structures of PowerChapter 5High Flying Fashions: Ghana Airways’ Female Flight Attendants as Exemplars of the NationChristopher RichardsChapter 6First Ladies of the Raj: Status and Empowerment in British IndiaDonald Clay JohnsonChapter 7The Lady was a Mshoza: Female Agency and Empowerment in South African Pantsula Dance and CultureDaniela GoellerChapter 8Penetrating Knits: Feminists Knit ‘Cunty First’ and ‘The Pussyhat’Rebecca E. Schuiling and Theresa WingeChapter 9The Choli and the Empowerment of Indian WomenVandana BhandariNarratives of Objectification and Self-ObjectificationChapter 10The Prowess of a Virgin Goddess and a Seductress: Analyzing the Ideals of Female Sexuality of Princess Diana and Kate MiddletonCaroline McCauleyChapter 11Dress and Sex Work – Attracting Customers through Virtual EnvironmentsTasoulla Hadiyanni and Kim K. JohnsonChapter 12Stripping of Power: Dress and Undress of Afro-Brazilian Women in the Scientific Work of Louis and Elizabeth Agassiz Kelly Mohs Gage Chapter 13Turning Self to Object: Costume, Identity, and Gender Roles in Alice Austen’s Photographic Self-PortraitsKeren Ben-Horin BibliographyIndex

Lynch and Medvedev have given their readers a ‘fresh look’ into the fashion of the 21st century. Their book reflects the zeitgeist and the importance of diversity, taking readers on journeys of race, ethnicity, gender, class and most importantly style. The text relates the significance of today’s cultural shifts and how we are moving into a new era reflecting the influence of global fashion.