May 3, 2021
Situating the Dressed Body in the Social World
Dress lies at the margins of the body and marks the boundary between self and other, individual and society. This…
May 1, 2021
Fashion, Identification and Emergent Socialites
According to Maffesoli (1988, 1991, 1996), we are currently witnessing a resurgence of basic forms of community, a move away…
April 30, 2021
Manliness, Modernity and the Shaping of Male Clothing
At the turn of the nineteenth century writers in the trade press for the men’s garment industries found themselves caught…
April 29, 2021
Changing Educational Landscapes
Landscapes change. Virgin forests are cut down and turned into wheat fields and pasturelands; contaminated swamps are drained to become…
April 29, 2021
Embodying the Single Girl in the 1960s
The dominant position in feminist studies exemplified by scholars such as Susan Bordo (1997) claims that consumer culture oppresses women…
April 28, 2021
The Question of This Modern European Symposium and the Comparative-Historical Approach
The contemporary question that I shall discuss at this symposium may be articulated simply as follows: “What education, knowledge and…
April 27, 2021
The Educational Culture of the Athenians
If one were to apply modernist terminology, one would say that education in ancient Athens, but for certain extenuating circumstances,…
April 27, 2021
The growth of children and adolescents
Designers of children’s clothes should be aware of the way that a child’s body shape changes as it grows and…
