FSN 223 Lecture Notes - Aimee Mullins, Fashion Blog, Dita Von Teese
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Review of chubstr website gives them their expertise and tips for styling. Barbie and ideal femininity made of plastic: identity to identities, black women and hair, people with disabilities and fashion, gay men and body image, queering identities, review assignment, object analysis, requirements. Us antidiscrimination law wasn"t protecting black women. Black women were the last to be hired and the first to be fired because of discrimination. Being discriminated because of both gender and racial identity. Individual-> society all the categories we belong to add to our identity- ability, gender, social class, culture, age . If affects the way society looks at you and how you look at society affects our choice of clothing. Peter brown- black people and white people were from different species- Good hair - long straight silky seemingly white white people had hair while black people have wool. Hose slaves had to iron their hair to look as white as possible.
