A taste for excess : disdained and dissident forms of fashioning femininity

This thesis examines the meanings of forms of fashioned femininity in Britain in the post-war period. Drawing on a range of popular, academic and media texts, the widespread social, political and cultural disdain for the feminised decorative is defined and discussed. Modernist rhetoric and taste, th...

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Main Author: Patrick, Adele
Published: University of Stirling 2004
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.513874