Fresh Lipstick: Redressing Fashion and Feminism - Hardcover

Scott, Linda M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1403966869 ISBN 13: 9781403966865

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

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Book by Scott Linda M

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"'Linda Scott has written a fresh, provocative and fun look at feminism and fashion. For too long leading feminists have told women that everything from high heels to lipstick is oppressive. Linda Scott shows us how the most oppressive voice is the feminists themselves. With exemplary research she documents the puritanical and classist motives of the women's movement in their judgments of fashion, and arrives at the conclusion women have been waiting for: you can be feminine and a feminist.' - Rene Denfeld, author of The New Victorians: A Young Woman's Challenge to the Old Feminist Order 'Every once in a while a book appears that separates smoke from fire. This is one of those books.' - James B. Twitchell, author of Branded Nation, Living It Up: America's Love Affair with Luxury, and Adcult 'This is a brilliant work that established Linda Scott as the leading academic commentator...on women, fashion and advertising and our most perceptive thinker on the cultural understanding of advertising.' - Michael Schudson, author of The Good Citizen, Watergate in American Memory, and Professor of Sociology and Communications, UC - San Diego, USA 'Thanks to Fresh Lipstick feminism will be fashionable. Linda Scott uses historical anecdotes and strong opinions to make the case for feminism to more honestly approach beauty and fashion.' - Amy Richards, co-author of Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism and the Future and Grassroots: A Field Guide to Feminist Activism"

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Fresh Lipstick shakes feminist fashion down to its Birkenstocks. Linda M. Scott wants to put an end to the belief that American women have to wear a colorless, shapeless uniform to achieve liberation and equality. A pointed attack on feminism's requisite style of dress, Fresh Lipstick argues that wearing high heels and using hair curlers does not deny you the right to seek advancement, empowerment, and equality. Scott asserts that judging someone on her fashion choices is as detrimental to advancement as judgments based on race, nationality, or social class. Fashion is an important mode of personal expression, not an indication of submission. She demonstrates that feminism's dogged reduction of fashion to sexual objectification has been motivated by a desire to control other women, not free them. This push for power has produced endless conflict from the movement's earliest days, hindering advances in women's rights by promoting exclusion. It is time for the "plain Jane" dress code of the revolution to be lifted, allowing all women to lead, even those wearing makeup and Manolos. Marching through 150 years of American dress history, Scott rips down feminism's favorite positions on fashion-from the power of images to the purpose of makeup. The illustrative examples-from flappers to Twiggy to body-piercing-are often poignant, occasionally infuriating, but always illuminating and thought-provoking. With Fresh Lipstick, Linda Scott gives women the ammunition to settle the fashion debate once and for all. She challenges feminists to move beyond appearances and to return their focus to the true mission of the movement: equality for all women everywhere.

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• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1403966869
• ISBN 13: 9781403966865
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 368