Sex, Culture, and the Politics of Fashion in Stuart England [PDF]
, 2018 This dissertation is the first full-length study to analyze the politicization of dress and material objects, exploring the manner in which fashion served as a site for political discourse and agency, during the seventeenth century, specifically from ...
Brinkman, Emilie M.
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Dressing the Part: Napoleon’s Sartorial Politics and the Politics of Fashion, 1789-1801 [PDF]
This doctoral dissertation aims to shed new light on Napoleon Bonaparte’s sartorial politics in the years preceding his rise to imperial power. Despite their potential significance in shaping his political identity, his attitudes towards fashion and ...
Sheikhan, Tania
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„Wenn der Geist in vollkommener Zersplitterung sich selbst findet“. Reflexionen über die neue konfuzianische Philosophie und das Problem der historischen Diskontinuität [PDF]
, 2014 In this article I inquire into the question of cultural continuity against the background of the problem of modernity through the medium of the specific case of New Confucian philosophy.
Ady Van den Stock
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Assyrian Imperial Elites and Textile Culture of the 1st Millennium BC: Shaping Power Visions Through Textiles [PDF]
As a crucial component of the materiality of the first world empire, textile culture documented in archival cuneiform documents,visual art, and archaeological materials from 1st-millennium BC Assyria enables historians to reconstruct the social ...
Salvatore Gaspa
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From religion to revolution… and nationalism : Hui identity and historical materialism in the work of Jamāl al-Dīn Bai Shouyi and beyond [PDF]
, 2019 Van den Stock, Ady
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The Objects of Modernity: an Investigation of Material Culture and Mass Consumption [PDF]
, 2007 This thesis examines the impact of the objects that surrounds us and the practices of consumption in which we engage on the cultural constructions we live and vice versa taking its point of departure in an examination of the objects and consumption ...
Malmqvist, Lars
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METHODOLOGICAL EMBODIMENTS:: PSYCHICAL CORPOREAL PERFORMANCES OF SUBJECTIVE SPECIFIC AUTO[EROTIC)-REPRESENTATIONS [PDF]
, 2001 A great deal of critical attention has been paid over the last twenty years at least to the relation of 'self and 'Other'. But what happens when the external 'other' is displaced to the periphery of the concerns of textual production?
Sanders, Ryya Aviva
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Plush Love: Animal Anthropomorphism in Contemporary Art [PDF]
, 2013 Plush Love: Animal Anthropomorphism in Contemporary Art Isa Tousignant In The Open: Man and Animal, Giorgio Agamben writes: “the relation between man and animal marks the boundary of an essential domain, in which historical inquiry must necessarily
Tousignant, Isa
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Scripts, skirts, and stays: femininity and dress in fiction by German women writers, 1840-1910 [PDF]
This thesis examines the importance of sartorial detail in fiction by German women writers of the nineteenth century. Using a methodology based on Judith Butler’s gender theory, it examines how femininity is perceived and presented and argues that ...
Nevin, Elodie
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, 2018 This thesis, Defined by Culture, studies the language of Finnish clothing. It aims to discover the essence of the culture and introduce it in a women’s wear collection of 9 outfits. What kind of a language can Finnish clothing be?
Joensuu, Ruut
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