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Fashioning Globalisation: New Zealand Design, Working Women and the Cultural Economy
Contributor(s): Molloy, Maureen (Author), Larner, Wendy (Author)
ISBN: 1444337017     ISBN-13: 9781444337013
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
OUR PRICE:   $91.91  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: August 2013
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Human Geography
- Business & Economics | International - General
Dewey: 382.456
LCCN: 2013006161
Series: Rgs-Ibg Book
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.2" W x 9.1" (0.90 lbs) 216 pages
 
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Publisher Description:
Drastic changes in the career aspirations of women in the developed world have resulted in a new, globalised market for off-the-peg designer clothes created by independent artisans. This book reports on a phenomenon that seems to exemplify the twin imperatives of globalisation and female emancipation.
  • A major conceptual contribution to the literatures on globalisation, fashion and gender, analysing the ways in which women's entry into the labour force over the past thirty years in the developed world has underpinned new forms of aestheticised production and consumption as well as the growth of 'work-style' businesses
  • A vital contribution to the burgeoning literature on culture and creative industries which often ignores the significant roles taken by women as entrepreneurs and designers rather than mere consumers
  • Introduces fashion scholars and economic geographers to a paradigmatic example of the new designer fashion industries emerging in a range of countries not traditionally associated with fashion
  • Takes a fresh perspective on an industry in which Third World garment workers have been the subject of exhaustive analysis but first world women have been largely ignored