Table of Contents

Table of Contents
List of Images
Acknowledgments
Preface
Chapter One: Introduction to Subcultural Body Style
Chapter Two: Subcultural Body Style History
Chapter Three: Subcultural Body Style and Identity
Chapter Four: Subcultural Body Style
Chapter Five: Future of Subcultural Body Style
Notes
Further Readings
References
Index

Promotional Information

Reveals the subcultural body as a site for understanding identity, resistance, agency and fashion. The result of eleven years' research with urban subcultures from Europe, Australia, Asia and North America, this book will be of particular interest to students of dress and fashion, as well as sociology and cultural studies.

About the Author

Theresa M. Winge is an assistant professor of fashion design and theory at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA. In recent years, Winge's research has focused on the socio-cultural aspects of Modern Primitive body modifications and Japanese Lolitas.

Reviews

Body Style is a welcome project, at once accessible to students and the general public and relevant to professional anthropologists... We welcome more attention to the cultural variations within Western societies and to the complex and controversial interplay between Western societies and (at least imagined versions of) non-Western ones... The book gives us pause to think about the extremes to which people will go, and perhaps must go in the post-modern era, to make themselves.
*Anthropology Review Database*