Appearances: Memory, History, Clothes
Autor Carol Dyhouseen Limba Engleză Hardback – 23 mai 2025
What does it mean to obsess about clothes and appearances? For some of us, deciding what to wear can involve tension and torment as well as delight. What do we mean by ‘looking classy’ or ‘power dressing’? What are the connections – or contradictions – between dress and desire, glamour and feminism? Do our choices reflect or challenge social values and constraints in women’s lives? Appearances is both memoir and cultural history. It considers attitudes to personal appearance through four generations of women in the author’s family, weaving memory through a wide-ranging exploration of fashion, femininity and feminism in the recent past.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781916846685
ISBN-10: 1916846688
Pagini: 176
Ilustrații: 32
Dimensiuni: 137 x 216 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: Unicorn Publishing Group
Colecția Unicorn Publishing Group
ISBN-10: 1916846688
Pagini: 176
Ilustrații: 32
Dimensiuni: 137 x 216 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: Unicorn Publishing Group
Colecția Unicorn Publishing Group
Recenzii
‘Carol Dyhouse has a sparkling ability to shed a feminist light into the corners of women’s lives, from glamour to desire and moral outrage. It’s a true delight to see this lens turned on to her own life through the prism of clothing and memory.’
Amber Butchart, Fashion historian and curator
‘Appearances offers an insightful, first-hand glimpse into a time of sweeping cultural change. Dyhouse’s inviting tone and sense of humour, combined with her unique expertise in social history, make this a joy to read.’
Hillary Belzer, Founder and Curator, The Makeup Museum
‘This is a perceptive and sparkling account of the importance of fashion and public image to women growing up in Britain after the Second World War. It expertly interweaves personal experience and cultural history to offer fresh ideas.’
Margarette Lincoln, Curator Emerita, Royal Museums Greenwich and author of Perfection, 400 Years of Women’s Quest for Beauty
‘Riveting – at once an innovative and intensely readable, personal memoir and a sharply-observed piece of social and cultural history. Every woman will recognise herself in the pages.’
Sarah Gristwood, Historian and author of Secret Voices: A Year of Women’s Diaries
‘Dyhouse has gifted us a clever and deeply moving exploration of family history, feminism and memory, unravelling the threads that bind our identities. Through a vivid portrayal of clothing as both expression and revelation, she reveals how garments carry our stories and connect us to our past. This book is like a family quilt, intricately woven with the textures of shared histories and personal experiences. A dazzling, evocative achievement.’
Dr Owen Emmerson, Social and Cultural Historian
‘Appearances is Dyhouse’s scrupulously researched, forensically precise, gloriously witty and personally revealing account of the importance of appearance, through the clothes, perfume, jewellery and make-up of the past and present, drawing widely from her own choices, those of her mother and daughters, and the representation of women in history, literature and the media. A brilliant cultural study that reminds us of women’s “desperation of being sexy”.’
Professor Helen Taylor FRSA FEA, author of Why Women Read Fiction
‘With enviable powers of recall, Carol Dyhouse takes us through a moving account of the material and psychological significance of clothes as she grew up and throughout her later life. Part personal memoir and part brilliantly researched social history, this study of women’s engagement with appearance, and the commercial imperatives that feed it, will be compelling for readers of all ages.’
Marcia Pointon, Professor Emerita in History of Art, University of Manchester
‘In this intimate journey through clothes, perfume and make-up, Dyhouse shows us exactly why appearance matters to women. It is a wonderful read – by turns funny and poignant – packed with acute observation, entertaining anecdote and wonderful historical detail.’
Professor Claire Langhamer, Director of the Institute of Historical Research
‘A memoir told through clothes, this book not only charts the author’s life but the cultural and societal shifts in post-war Britain. Both a trip down memory lane and an entertaining slice of fashion history.’
Katie Godman, fashion historian and author of Gothic Fashion – The History
‘Dyhouse skillfully combines autobiography and biography in a history of women and girls’ ambiguous relationship with their appearance. Wide-ranging research underpins a scholarly, witty, profound book speaking to, and of, a generation of women experiencing new educational and employment opportunities.’
Stephanie Spencer, Emerita Professor, University of Winchester
Notă biografică
Carol Dyhouse writes on the social history of women, education and popular culture. Her previous publications include Glamour: Women, History, Feminism (2011), Girl Trouble: Panic and Progress in the History of Young Women (2013), Heartthrobs: A History of Women and Desire (2017) and Love Lives, From Cinderella to Frozen (2021). Carol is emeritus professor of history at the University of Sussex and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.