Dressed to Kill: Dress and Identity in History - ARTS2904
Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
School: School of Humanities and Languages
Course Outline: School of Humanities & Languages
Campus: Sydney
Career: Undergraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
Enrolment Requirements:
Prerequisite: 30 units of credit at Level 1; or 24 units of credit and enrolment in a History extended minor in Arts/Education (4053) or a Women's & Gender Studies minor in Arts/Law (4782)
Excluded: ARTS2901
CSS Contribution Charge: 1 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
Available for General Education: Yes (more info)
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Description
Subject Area: Women's and Gender Studies
This course can also be studied in the following specialisation: History
In Dressed to Kill, you will explore the links between dress and gendered identities using a number of case studies from Europe, Asia, Australia and the Americas over the last four hundred years. This course will focus on the many meanings of dress from daily attire, to national dress and uniforms, to high fashion across a wide gamut of cultures. We will use photographs, paintings and readings to cover topics as diverse as shaping the body (such as foot-binding and the corset), deportment, haute couture, and even the meaning of cloth. Women’s dress as the Other of men’s dress, the manipulation of costume for political agendas (including fashion and fascism and feminism and fashion), current debates about veiling, and the history of the department store will also be explored.