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Shaping Femininity by Sarah Bendall (Australian Catholic University, Australia)
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £28.98Highly Commended, Society for Renaissance Studies Biennial Book Prize 2022 In sixteenth and seventeenth-century England, the female silhouette underwent a dramatic change. This very structured... -
3D Printing Design by Francis Bitonti (Digital Arts and Humanities Research Center at Pratt Institute and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute School of Architecture, USA)
SciFier: £87.99To work with the materials of tomorrow, design students across visual arts disciplines need to understand the cutting edge of today. Whether you're modelling in interiors, designing in fashion or... -
Picturing the Woman-Child: Fashion, Feminism and the Female Gaze Morna Laing (Parsons Paris, France) 9781350214385
SciFier: £34.63The childlike character of ideal femininity has long been critiqued by feminists, from Mary Wollstonecraft to Simone de Beauvoir. Yet, women continue to be represented as childlike in the western... -
Wearing the Niqab by Anna Piela (Northwestern University, USA)
SciFier: £33.99Bringing niqab wearers' voices to the fore, discussing their narratives on religious agency, identity, social interaction, community, and urban spaces, Anna Piela situates women's accounts firmly... -
Picturing the Woman-Child: Fashion, Feminism and the Female Gaze Morna Laing (Parsons Paris, France) 9781350059580
SciFier: £104.49The childlike character of ideal femininity has long been critiqued by feminists, from Mary Wollstonecraft to Simone de Beauvoir. Yet, women continue to be represented as childlike in the western... -
Fashioning Professionals by Leah Armstrong (University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria)
SciFier: £36.99From artist to curator, couturier to fashion blogger, 'creative' professional identities can be viewed as social practices, enacted, performed and negotiated through the media, the public, and... -
Fashion in European Art: Dress and Identity, Politics and the Body, 1775-1925 Justine De Young 9781788314480
SciFier: £30.29Fashion reveals not only who we are, but whom we aspire to be. From 1775 to 1925, artists in Europe were especially attuned to the gaps between appearance and reality, participating in and often... -
The Circus by Pascal Jacob (Lecturer, Sorbonne, France)
RRP: £45.00SciFier: £41.29Winner of 2019 British Book Design & Production Award for Scholarly, Academic & Reference Books This beautiful book charts the development of the circus as an art form around the world, from... -
Cult Media, Fandom, and Textiles by Dr Brigid Cherry
SciFier: £37.99This book is the first to explore handicrafting practiced by media fans, their online fan communities and the multiple meanings they create. Based on in-depth ethnographic research into fans on the... -
Sustainability and the Social Fabric: Europe's New Textile Industries Clio Padovani (University of Southampton, UK) 9781350105775
SciFier: £36.99While the topic of sustainability in textile manufacture has been the subject of considerable research, much of this is limited to a focus on materials and practices and their ecological impact... -
Fashioning the Victorians: A Critical Sourcebook Professor Rebecca Mitchell (University of Birmingham, UK) 9781350023406
SciFier: £34.24Offering a unique anthology of primary texts, this sourcebook opens a window on the writing that shaped and mirrored Victorian fashion, taking us from corsets to crinolines, dandies to decadent 'New... -
Digital Architecture Beyond Computers: Fragments of a Cultural History of Computational Design Roberto Bottazzi (University of Westminster, UK) 9781474258128
SciFier: £29.20Digital Architecture Beyond Computers explores the deep history of digital architecture, tracing design concepts as far back as the Renaissance and connecting them with the latest software used by... -
Bond Girls: Body, Fashion and Gender Dr Monica Germana 9780857855329
SciFier: £35.33Since Ursula Andress's white-bikini debut in Dr No, 'Bond Girls' have been simultaneously celebrated as fashion icons and dismissed as 'eye-candy'. But the visual glamour of the women of James Bond... -
Spacewear by Barbara Brownie (University of Hertfordshire, UK)
SciFier: £35.99Today, we are living in the New Space Age, where mass commercial space travel is almost within our grasp. This otherworldly possibility has opened up new cultural images of space, both real and... -
Textiles, Community and Controversy: The Knitting Map Jools Gilson (University College Cork, Ireland) 9781350027527
SciFier: £30.99Taking a major textile artwork, The Knitting Map, as a central case study, this book interrogates the social, philosophical and critical issues surrounding contemporary textile art today. It explores... -
Fashion Sewing by Connie Amaden-Crawford (Fashion Patterns by Coni, USA)
SciFier: £32.08Featuring easy-to-follow instructions on all the main basic and intermediate skills required to sew garments from a pattern, Fashion Sewing: Introductory Techniques is an excellent resource for... -
Fashion, Performance, and Performativity by Andrea Kollnitz (Stockholm University, Sweden)
SciFier: £31.99In the first comprehensive study of the interactions between fashion, performance and performativity, a group of international experts explore fashion as the ideal 'complex space' - or, in other... -
Gay Men's Style: Fashion, Dress and Sexuality in the 21st Century Shaun Cole (Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, UK) 9781474249140
SciFier: £79.30Through an astonishing series of interviews, Gay Men's Style will take you on a dizzying journey through shops, bars, clubs, gyms, workplaces and global city streets. Based on the lived experience of... -
The History of Fashion Journalism by Kate Nelson Best (Conde Nast College of Fashion & Design, London, UK)
SciFier: £30.29The History of Fashion Journalism is a uniquely comprehensive study of the development of the industry from its origins to the present day, and including professionals' such as Dylan Jones's vision... -
Women in Wartime: Dress Studies from Picture Post 1938-1945 Geraldine Howell (University of Westminster, UK) 9781350211889
SciFier: £35.99This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. Picture Post magazine was made famous by its pioneering photojournalism, which vividly... -
A History of the Paper Pattern Industry by Joy Spanabel Emery
SciFier: £37.49Sewing patterns have been the principle blueprint for making garments in the home for centuries. From their origins in the tailoring manuals of the 16th century to the widely produced pamphlets of... -
Women in Wartime: Dress Studies from Picture Post 1938-1945 Geraldine Howell (University of Westminster, UK) 9781350000926
SciFier: £104.49This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched.Picture Post magazine was made famous by its pioneering photojournalism, which vividly... -
Queering the Subversive Stitch: Men and the Culture of Needlework Joseph McBrinn (University of Ulster, UK) 9781472578044
SciFier: £31.38The history of men's needlework has long been considered a taboo subject. This is the first book ever published to document and critically interrogate a range of needlework made by men. It reveals... -
Construction for Fashion Design by Professor Anette Fischer
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £23.21Construction is the foundation of fashion design; it takes passion and great skill to turn a two-dimensional drawing into a successful garment. Construction for Fashion Design guides readers... -
Concentrationary Memories: Totalitarian Terror and Cultural Resistance Griselda Pollock (University of Leeds, UK) 9781350229174
SciFier: £33.16Concentrationary Memories has, as its premise, the idea at the heart of Alain Resnais's film Night and Fog (1955) that the concentrationary plague unleashed on the world by the Nazis in the 1930s and... -
Transorientalism in Art, Fashion, and Film: Inventions of Identity Adam Geczy (University of Sydney, Australia) 9781350060142
SciFier: £103.99Combining transnationalism and exoticism, transorientalism is the new orientalism of the age of globalization. With its roots in earlier times, it is a term that emphasizes alteration, mutation, and... -
Spacewear: Weightlessness and the Final Frontier of Fashion Barbara Brownie 9781350000322
SciFier: £103.99Today, we are living in the New Space Age, where mass commercial space travel is almost within our grasp. This otherworldly possibility has opened up new cultural images of space, both real and... -
Transorientalism in Art, Fashion, and Film: Inventions of Identity Adam Geczy (University of Sydney, Australia) 9781350175334
SciFier: £35.99Combining transnationalism and exoticism, transorientalism is the new orientalism of the age of globalization. With its roots in earlier times, it is a term that emphasizes alteration, mutation, and... -
Patternmaking History and Theory Dr Jennifer Grayer Moore 9781350227804
SciFier: £34.99Fashion design is increasingly gaining attention as an important form of cultural expression. However, scholarship has largely focused on specific designers and their finished products. This... -
Network Nature: The Place of Nature in the Digital Age Richard Coyne (Edinburgh College of Art, UK) 9781350136717
SciFier: £36.99How do people avoid the stresses of the digital age? Urban dwellers must now turn to nature to recover, restore and rebalance after the stresses brought on by relentless digital connectivity. It is... -
Teaching Fashion Studies Dr Holly M. Kent (University of Illinois-Springfield, USA) 9781350022874
RRP: £95.00SciFier: £59.14Teaching Fashion Studies is the definitive resource for instructors of fashion studies at the undergraduate level and beyond. The first of its kind, it offers extensive, practical support for both... -
Inside the Royal Wardrobe by Kate Strasdin (Falmouth University, UK)
SciFier: £30.29Queen Alexandra used clothes to fashion images of herself as a wife, a mother and a royal: a woman who both led Britain alongside her husband Edward VII and lived her life through fashion. Inside the... -
Material Lives: Women Makers and Consumer Culture in the 18th Century Serena Dyer (De Montfort University, UK) 9781350126961
SciFier: £35.33Eighteenth-century women told their life stories through making. With its compelling stories of women's material experiences and practices, Material Lives offers a new perspective on... -
Consumptive Chic by Professor Carolyn A. Day (Furman University, USA)
SciFier: £32.46During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, there was a tubercular 'moment' in which perceptions of the consumptive disease became inextricably tied to contemporary concepts of beauty, playing out... -
Concentrationary Imaginaries: Tracing Totalitarian Violence in Popular Culture Griselda Pollock (University of Leeds, UK) 9781350229556
SciFier: £32.46In 1945, French political prisoners returning from the concentration camps of Germany coined the phrase 'the concentrationary universe' to describe the camps as a terrible political experiment in the... -
Picturing the Beautiful Game: A History of Soccer in Visual Culture and Art Dr. Daniel Haxall (Associate Professor of Art History, Kutztown University, USA) 9781350435773
SciFier: £32.99The world's most popular sport, soccer, has long been celebrated as "the beautiful game" for its artistry and aesthetic appeal. Picturing the Beautiful Game: A History of Soccer in Visual Culture and... -
Busks, Basques and Brush-Braid by Dr Pam Inder (Independent Scholar, UK)
SciFier: £33.99The dressmaking trade developed rapidly during the 18th and 19th centuries, changing the lives of thousands of British workers. Busks, Basques and Brush-Braid focuses on the trade and the people... -
Time in Fashion: Industrial, Antilinear and Uchronic Temporalities Caroline Evans 9781350146938
SciFier: £37.88Few phenomena embody the notion of time as well as fashion. Fast-moving and rooted in the 'now', it's constantly creating its own past through the process of rapid style change. Uniquely poised... -
Fashion, History, Museums by Julia Petrov (Royal Alberta Museum, Canada)
SciFier: £36.79This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. "A remarkable resource... -
Contemporary Indonesian Fashion by Dr Alessandra Lopez y Royo (SOAS University of London, UK)
RRP: £31.99SciFier: £19.35Indonesian fashion has undergone a period of rapid growth over the last three decades. This book explores how through years of social, political, and cultural upheaval, the country's fashion has...