ARTS-A0630 - Women and Power through Fashion: Past and Present, Lectures, 26.4.2023-31.5.2023
This course space end date is set to 31.05.2023 Search Courses: ARTS-A0630
Topic outline
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Week 4: Art Deco Style of the Roaring Twenties and World War II Fashion (1900-1940)
17 May 2023
Guiding questions: How did women’s fashion change in the early twentieth century? What role did the women’s suffrage movement have on fashion? How did fashion icons Coco Chanel, Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich and Josephine Baker utilise the power of fashion?
Primary reading(s):
(PDF) Annamari Vänskä, “Gender and Sexuality”, in A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Modern Age, edited by Alexandre Palmer (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017), pp. 107-130.
Kandidaattikeskus (Otakaari 1) U401