Women's Studies 2164A Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Laura Mulvey, Collective Behavior, Queer Studies

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 2164A
• Professor: Olson

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Clip: the devil wears prada: lauren weisburger, the author of the book, had been a personal assistant to anna. When she left, she wrote a tell-all disguised as fiction and when it came out, the whole fashion industry was agape. What do we (cid:373)ea(cid:374) whe(cid:374) we say (cid:858)fashio(cid:374)? (cid:859: 1. Selection of clothes and apparel; some go in and out of fashion: eg. midi length skirts are the fashion right now, 2. Ways of wearing/combining these items: eg. she has a great sense of fashion/she is a fashionable person, 3. Thi(cid:374)gs clothi(cid:374)g ca(cid:374) (cid:862) ay(cid:863: status (how much money you have, gender, allegiance to a social group (eg. emo, punk, professor, sexuality, identity. Fashion is a symbolic system with its own language. Fashion carries conventions of decoding and interpreting (fashion is a language, and the clothing and accessories you wear are the way you tell people things about yourself).