Through meticulous examinations, this book analyzes how women update their identities and articulate their feelings through clothing and art in protests, politics in the United States in the 20th century. Topics explored include the suffragists and their impact on contemporary art, the significance of the red dress in both The Handmaid’s Tale and the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women movement, the impact of the Miss America protests, the rising popularity of the pantsuit for women, the recent dominance of the pussyhat, and the way that feminist slogans are disseminated on t-shirts. Movements discussed include craftivism, hashtag culture, feminism, the CROWN act, Pantsuit Nation, socially-committed stores, and more. Interdisciplinary and intersectional at its core, addressing numerous areas, including fashion, sociology, visual culture, art history, feminism, and popular culture; Fashioning Politics and Protests uncovers how women continue to use visual means, explored via their clothing, to change the world.
Author(s): Emily L. Newman
Series: Palgrave Studies in Fashion and the Body
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 273
City: Cham
Acknowledgments
Contents
About the Author
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction: I Will Not Be the Last
Chapter 2: Redress the Red Dress
Handmaid Red
Protest Red
Period Red
Historically Red
Powerful Red
Indigenous Red
Seeing Red
Chapter 3: CROWNing a New Kind of Miss America
Bess Myerson
Vanessa Williams
Black Pageants
Black Hair
Lorna Simpson and Alison Saar
Miss America’s Legacies
Impact
Chapter 4: When Women Wear the Pants
Hillary Clinton’s Pantsuits
The Gentleman’s Suit
La Garconne’s Suit
Coco Chanel’s Suits
Yves Saint Laurent’s Suits
Mainstream Suits
Giorgio Armani’s Suits
Working Girl’s Suits
Artists’ Suits
Capsule Collection Suits
Congresswomen’s Suits
Chapter 5: What’s New Pussyhat?
Pussyhat, Pussyhat
Craftivism
Blending Craft into Fashion
Pink
Pink in Fashion
Contemporary Art
Back to the Present
Chapter 6: Epilogue: The Future is Female … and Intersectional, Gender-Fluid, and Unexpected
Otherwild
The Outrage
Phenomenal
Conclusion
Chapter 7: Postscript: November 7, 2022
Bibliography
Index