“Power Dressing”: Hyper-Feminine Performance and the Professionally Self-Sexualised Female Body

Taking as its inspiration Joanne Entwistle’s understanding of the “power-dressing” phenomenon that took over the United States from the late 1970s as a discourse on the body, sexuality, gender performance, and power, this paper considers the implications of power-dressing when applied to another ite...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stephanie Lever
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Bologna 2023-07-01
Series:ZoneModa Journal
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Online Access:https://zmj.unibo.it/article/view/17116