The Language of Clothes.

Mukerji, Chandra; Lurie, Alison

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“…Similarly, Lurie (2000) considered dress to be a language. Individuals communicate their gender, age, class and other important information before any verbal words have been spoken.…”

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“…Humans manipulate and utilize language according to situation or intent and the same is done so with the dress. The language of clothes varies across age, gender, colour, texture, time, culture, opinion, pattern and status (Lurie, 2000). This study focuses on the gendered and temporal aspect of dress in selected American novels; Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell and The Help by Kathryn Stockett, with the aim to unveil the underlying ideology of power.…”

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Misogynic Semiosis in American Fiction: A Critical Perspective on Female Characters’ Dress and Appearance

Ashher

2023

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This study attempts to explore whether the attire and appearance of female characters in American fiction is a semiosis of patriarchal power. The sociology of dress and appearance was used as the theoretical stance of this research. Two novels, "Gone with the Wind" and "The Help" were selected using criterion sampling. The selected excerpts from these novels were analyzed by Fairclough's three-dimensional method of critical discourse analysis grounded in Halliday's view of language as a semiotic system (1978/2007). Findings from the analysis show that patriarchal values, dominance, misogyny, and the expectation to fulfil feminine norms and socio-economic status are expressed through women's dress. There is also evidence of generic/discursive overlaps which reflect changes in the patriarchal structure of American society, in particular, and by implication in all male-dominated societies in the world including Pakistan. The study has implications for the critical evaluation of ideologies and imagined realities naturalized through literary genres.

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“…Similarly, Lurie (2000) considered dress to be a language. Individuals communicate their gender, age, class and other important information before any verbal words have been spoken.…”

Section: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Misogynic Semiosis in American Fiction: A Critical Perspective on Female Characters’ Dress and Appearance

Ashher

2023

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“…The choice of attire, whether for a special occasion, or otherwise, offers stylistic and cultural allegiance for the wearer (Lurie, 1992;Rugh, 1986), through which their affiliations and identities are made public and political (Baker, 1985;Hebdige, 1979). But clothing also marks a difference from others.…”

Section: Choosing Ethnic Attire and Politics Of Youthmentioning

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Performative politics: South Asian children’s identities and political agency

Dar

2018

Childhood

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This article explores the cultural, youthful, and embodied acts of subject-making of South Asian immigrant teens growing up in a post 9/11 New York City, wherein they experience Islamophobia in their neighborhoods and schools. I argue that these acts of subject-making, situated in particular sociopolitical contexts, and made evident in multiple in-between sites of an after-school center, street corners, and online forums, can be read as performative politics of youth, and offer insights into the political agency of young people.

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“…The fortification of one's classness, be it by physical barriers such as protected gates in selected urban areas (Waldrop 2004), or by the display of possessions, particular uses of language or bodily techniques, becomes a necessary daily practice in a world of increasingly unstable social hierarchies: a world where one's class can be bought and worked out in the gym. Fashioning themselves has become a necessity for both Samir and Abhishek (see Liechty 2003), as that is the most easily visible class-differentiating marker (see Bowie 1993;Douglas and Isherwood 1979;Lurie 1992;Norris 2004;Simmel 1957).…”

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Acting Out Class

Kuldova

2010

Suomen Antropologi

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This research report, based on a fieldwork in Lucknow, North India, is an inquiry into the lives of young urban men and their concerns with status and class. The report approaches the topics of status and class through a focus on consumption, mimicking and mocking of ideas, commodities, mediated celebrities and lifestyles. By following five urban men and the processes of creation and re-creation of their self-definitions, it points to the ways in which they continually negotiate and renegotiate their status through simultaneous consumption and rejection of both tangible and intangible objects and ideas and through relating to and talking about their families. The case studies of these urban men reveal how they position themselves in opposition and in relation to each other and to mass-mediated celebrity lifestyles and fashions. The report touches on the topics of simultaneous mimicking and mocking of the imagined ‘West’ and the imagined ‘ancient and traditional’ vs. ‘modern’ India, and the ways in which ‘classness’ is acted out in relation to these ideas. Keywords: Indian male, class, mimesis, imitation, consumption, fashion, modernity, celebrity, media

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The Language of Clothes.

Cited by 9 publications

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Misogynic Semiosis in American Fiction: A Critical Perspective on Female Characters’ Dress and Appearance

Misogynic Semiosis in American Fiction: A Critical Perspective on Female Characters’ Dress and Appearance

Performative politics: South Asian children’s identities and political agency

Acting Out Class

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