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