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Title: | Are you feeling special today? Underwear and the 'fashioning' of female identity |
Authors: | Tsaousi, Christiana Brewis, Joanna |
Major Field of Science: | Social Sciences |
Field Category: | Media and Communications |
Keywords: | Female identity project;Identity construction;Identity opseis;Techniques of the body;Technologies of the self;Underwear |
Issue Date: | 1-Jan-2013 |
Source: | Culture and Organization, 2013, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 1-21 |
Volume: | 19 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start page: | 1 |
End page: | 21 |
Journal: | Culture and Organization |
Abstract: | This paper explores underwear - a neglected (at least by academic literature) aspect of clothing - and the ways it is implicated in the (re)production of women's identities. Although underwear is ostensibly hidden from view, as part of women's clothing, we argue that it functions as a resource for identity construction. We present data from three focus groups to discuss some of the socio-psychological reasons for choosing and wearing the 'right' underwear. The analysis is based on three themes: the significance respondents attribute to underwear according to whether it is hidden or visible; the sensations it induces for the wearer; and the varying mobilisations of underwear to support aspects of the female identity project. We argue that underwear can be seen as a technique of the body or a technology of the self and that a woman 'learns' through the embodied experience of wearing different underwear how to (re)construct various elements of her identity. |
URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14279/32123 |
ISSN: | 14772760 |
DOI: | 10.1080/14759551.2011.634196 |
Rights: | © Taylor and Francis |
Type: | Article |
Affiliation : | Bournemouth University University of Leicester |
Publication Type: | Peer Reviewed |
Appears in Collections: | Άρθρα/Articles |
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