Course Description--Fashion The Avatars of Style in Society
How did the idea of Haute Couture develop? Why is champagne the toasting drink of choice for celebrations? What made Coco Chanel famous? What possesses people to spend fortunes on the latest trend? What does the image we put out to the world say about us as humans? This class will address these and myriad other questions concerning how Fashion "fashions" our society in ways that are both fruitful and pernicious. The production of fashion and luxury items, their distribution, and the acquisition of wealth they require, all point to philosophical, ethical, political, and social issues. Fashion and style spark questions involving social justice (sweatshops), health and psychology (body image), the economy (globalization), and the environment (sustainability), among many others.
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Recommended eBooks & Print Books
Fashion Through History: Costumes, Symbols, Communication by ISBN: 9781527511965Publication Date: 2017
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Multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. Includes searchable PDF content going back as far as 1887. - Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window
Provides full text for nearly 3,800 scholarly business journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. - Communications and Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window
Provides articles in areas related to communication and mass media. CMMC offers cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 500 journals, and selected coverage of nearly 200 more, for a combined coverage of more than 690 titles. Furthermore, this database includes full text for over 380 journals. - JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Provides articles from 1,900+ scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, and sciences and around 5,000 ebooks. Coverage dates for journals are from the very first issue of each journal (the nineteenth or early twentieth centuries for many) and continues to 2 – 5 years prior to the current year (moving wall).
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- Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture
- Journal of Business Ethics (type "fashion in the search box)
- Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy (type "fashion" in the search box)
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