Picturing the Woman-Child: Fashion, Feminism and the Female Gaze
Author:   Morna Laing (Parsons Paris, France)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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9781350214385


Pages:   320
Publication Date:   26 January 2023
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Morna Laing (Parsons Paris, France)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Visual Arts
ISBN:  

9781350214385


ISBN 10:   1350214388
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   26 January 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

List of Figures Acknowledgements 1. Introduction PART I 2. Fashion Photography and Gender 3. Childlike Femininity: A History of Feminist Critique 4. Between Image and Spectator: Reception Studies as Visual Methodology PART II 5. The Romantic Woman-child, Lost from Home 6. Fashion's Femme-enfant-fatale: Surrealism, Curiosity and Alice in Wonderland 7: Rewriting Lolita in Fashion Photography 8: Kinderwhore: From Catwalk to Slutwalk Post-script: Looking Backwards to Look Forwards Bibliography Index Appendix 1. Participant Demographics

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This fascinating book centres on a paradox in visual culture: why do contemporary messages of female empowerment sit alongside a proliferation of images of childlike femininities? Examining magazine fashion spreads over 25 years, Picturing the Woman-Child offers a compelling analysis of four figures and the ways they are understood. * Rosalind Gill, City, University of London, UK * Morna Laing's nuanced and layered analysis of childlike femininities in fashion imagery is eye-opening. She weaves together a compelling theoretical, historical, and visual analysis, offering the reader a new perspective on and a deeper understanding of these pervasive cultural depictions of women. * Jennifer Farley Gordon, independent researcher, writer and curator, USA *


This fascinating book centres on a paradox in visual culture: why do contemporary messages of female empowerment sit alongside a proliferation of images of childlike femininities? Examining magazine fashion spreads over 25 years, Picturing the Woman-Child offers a compelling analysis of four figures and the ways they are understood. --Rosalind Gill, City, University of London, UK Morna Laing's nuanced and layered analysis of childlike femininities in fashion imagery is eye-opening. She weaves together a compelling theoretical, historical, and visual analysis, offering the reader a new perspective on and a deeper understanding of these pervasive cultural depictions of women. --Jennifer Farley Gordon, independent researcher, writer and curator, USA


Author Information

Morna Laing is Assistant Professor in Fashion Studies at The New School, Parsons Paris, France. She is the co-editor, with Jacki Willson, of Revisiting the Gaze: The Fashioned Body and the Politics of Looking (Bloomsbury, 2020).

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