WMS 138 - Transnational Studies of Dress,Fashion,and Gender

Institution:

University of California-Davis

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Description:

Lecture/discussion-4 hours. Prerequisite: one course in Women's Studies or Textiles and Clothing 7, 107, or 174. Dress and fashion as cultural communication, aesthetic expression, capitalist commodity. History, sociology, semiotics of fashion. Fashion as means of gender oppression and liberation. Use of dress in identity construction across cultures. Clothing workers on the global assembly line. Not offered every year. GE credit: ArtHum or SocSci, Div, Wrt.-Kaiser

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4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.ucdavis.edu

Phone Number:

(530) 752-1011

Regional Accreditation:

Western Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Quarter

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