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Critical Studies in Fashion & Beauty 13.2 is out now!

Intellect is pleased to announce that Critical Studies in Fashion & Beauty 13.2 is out now!

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Aims & Scope

Critical Studies in Fashion & Beauty (CSFB) engages analytically, critically and creatively with fashion and/or beauty. At times lumped together conceptually into ‘the fashion-beauty complex’, this journal acknowledges the problems associated with collapsing these terms, such as: (a) the conflation of fashion and beauty, concepts which encompass varying degrees and types of agency, change and dynamism; (b) the implicit reinforcement of white hegemonic femininity (and hence, the exclusion of masculinities, people of colour, older adults, differentially abled individuals, and queer and transgender subjectivities); and (c) the blurring of distinct industries. At the same time, the body is the centrepiece of fashion and beauty alike – in cultural representation as well as in everyday life. CSFB seeks to foster more diverse and inclusive ways of understanding the embodiment of aesthetics and politics. It does so by dismantling hegemonic assumptions and propelling fresh theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of fashion and/or beauty.

Issue 13.2

Introduction

Encounters: Fashion and beauty, fashion and art, fashion and social justice

SUSAN B. KAISER AND ANNEKE SMELIK

Articles

The expanding beauty regime: Or, why it has become so important to look good

GISELINDE KUIPERS

Fashioning simultaneous migrations: Sonia Delaunay and inter-war Romanian connections

SONIA ANDRAŞ

Slogan T-shirts: Liberalism, abolition and commodity activism in the Midwestern United States

NANCY GEBHART AND KELLY L. REDDY-BEST

Book Review