An exploration of the cultural politics of fur throughout history. The author reviews its values as commodity, sexual fetish, luxury item, article of trade, clothing and adornment. Using illustration, drawing on sources ranging from the literary to the visual, from fine art to fashion, Emberley assesses fur's role as a literary symbol and sexual fetish. She looks at fur's representation through the ages, including England's sumptuary laws and fur's historical role in building relations between Britain, North America and France. She explores the 20th-century globalization of the fur industry and the simultaneous rise of animal rights activism - exemplified by the "virtual politics" of the British Lynx anti-fur campaign, ranged against fur-producing economies of Inuit and Dene societies. She also unravels the complexities of today's embattled cultural politics of fur, including the politically-charged images of contemporary fashion photography and film, and the role of feminist theory in this rich mix of gender, race, colonialism, image and fantasy.
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feminine despot, simulated politics, bourgeois female consumer, fashion apparatus, fashion historiography, fur fashions, symbolic agency, clothing laws, fur factories, fur pants, bourgeois consumer, sumptuary legislation, sexual fetishism, joyless street, storytelling practices, sartorial display, bourgeois woman, aesthetic disposition, fur industry Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
First Nations, Frau Greifer, British Museum, Misread Fashion, The Masochist's Gift, George Blondin, Hudson's Bay Company, The Sumptuous Details of History, Van Eerde, Wenceslaus Hollar, North America, The Fecundity of Fur, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Middle Ages, World War, Dorothy Chocolate, Eartha Kitt, Jan van Eyck, Judy Olausen, Nanook of the North, Paul Blondin, White Venus, Albert Museum, Donna Haraway, Melchior Street New!
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feminine despot, simulated politics, bourgeois female consumer, fashion apparatus, fashion historiography, fur fashions, symbolic agency, clothing laws, fur factories, fur pants, bourgeois consumer, sumptuary legislation, sexual fetishism, joyless street, storytelling practices, sartorial display, bourgeois woman, aesthetic disposition, fur industry Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
First Nations, Frau Greifer, British Museum, Misread Fashion, The Masochist's Gift, George Blondin, Hudson's Bay Company, The Sumptuous Details of History, Van Eerde, Wenceslaus Hollar, North America, The Fecundity of Fur, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Middle Ages, World War, Dorothy Chocolate, Eartha Kitt, Jan van Eyck, Judy Olausen, Nanook of the North, Paul Blondin, White Venus, Albert Museum, Donna Haraway, Melchior Street New!
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- Fur Trade by Paul C. Phillips on 8 pages
- Venus in Furs (Erotic Classics) by Sacher-Masoch on 6 pages
- Venus in Furs (Penguin Classics) by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch on 6 pages
- The Fashion System by Roland Barthes on 5 pages
- Psychopathia Sexualis by Richard Von KrafftEbing on 4 pages
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- Arctic Clothing of North America - Alaska, Canada, Greenland by J. C. H. King in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Fashion, Desire and Anxiety: Image and Morality in the Twentieth Century by Rebecca Arnold in Back Matter
- The Fashioned Body: Fashion, Dress and Modern Social Theory by Joanne Entwistle in Back Matter
- Fashion, Desire and Anxiety (Fashion & Popular Culture) by Rebecca Arnold in Back Matter
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