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Buttoned Up: Clothing, Conformity, and White-Collar Masculinity by Erynn Masi de
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- ISBN-13
- 9781501700491
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- Publication Name
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- ISBN
- 9781501700491
- Book Title
- Buttoned Up : Clothing, Conformity, and White-Collar Masculinity
- Item Length
- 9.2in
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Genre
- Design, Business & Economics, Social Science
- Topic
- Sociology / General, Fashion & Accessories, Gender Studies, Men's Studies, Labor, Customs & Traditions
- Item Width
- 6.1in
- Item Weight
- 16 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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Who is today's white-collar man? The world of work has changed radically since The Man in the Gray Flannel Sui t and other mid-twentieth-century investigations of corporate life and identity. Contemporary jobs are more precarious, casual Friday has become an institution, and telecommuting blurs the divide between workplace and home. Gender expectations have changed, too, with men's bodies increasingly exposed in the media and scrutinized in everyday interactions. In Buttoned Up , based on interviews with dozens of men in three U.S. cities with distinct local dress cultures--New York, San Francisco, and Cincinnati--Erynn Masi de Casanova asks what it means to wear the white collar now. Despite the expansion of men's fashion and grooming practices, the decrease in formal dress codes, and the relaxing of traditional ideas about masculinity, white-collar men feel constrained in their choices about how to embody professionalism. They strategically embrace conformity in clothing as a way of maintaining their gender and class privilege. Across categories of race, sexual orientation and occupation, men talk about "blending in" and "looking the part" as they aim to keep their jobs or pursue better ones. These white-collar workers' accounts show that greater freedom in work dress codes can, ironically, increase men's anxiety about getting it wrong and discourage them from experimenting with their dress and appearance.
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Publisher
Cornell University Press
ISBN-10
1501700499
ISBN-13
9781501700491
eBay Product ID (ePID)
215227965
Product Key Features
Book Title
Buttoned Up : Clothing, Conformity, and White-Collar Masculinity
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Sociology / General, Fashion & Accessories, Gender Studies, Men's Studies, Labor, Customs & Traditions
Publication Year
2015
Genre
Design, Business & Economics, Social Science
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
16 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Gt615.C37 2015
Grade from
College Graduate Student
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"While we may think of white-collar masculinity as the timid commuter in the gray flannel suit, Erynn Masi de Casanova's erudite book demonstrates that middle-class men understood that such complacent conformity was the price tag for class, race, and gender dominance. Being buttoned-down meant having privilege neatly sewn up."--Michael Kimmel, SUNY Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies and Executive Director, Center for the Study of Men and Masculinities, Stony Brook University, author of Manhood in America, "I love this thought-provoking book; it is a pleasure to read. Erynn Masi de Casanova offers a nuanced and detailed exploration of a taken-for-granted and understudied topic: white-collar men's bodies. Buttoned Up attends to issues of ethnicity, sexuality, age, place, and company culture as they intersect in complex ways with masculinity and bourgeois class. It is a terrific example of qualitative social science research; Casanova's in-depth interviews support her theoretical insights."--Susan B. Kaiser, University of California, Davis, author of The Social Psychology of Clothing and Fashion and Cultural Studies, "Buttoned Up evokes sociological thought through considerations of the embodiment of gender, social constructions of dress style, and differences across age, region, or workplace. The book reads like a well-rounded documentary on white-collar dress: delving into histories, uncovering biographies, exploring workplace habitats, pondering symbolic meanings, and comparing geographies.... Scholars can make use of this book in a myriad of interdisciplinary courses on fashion and identity formation, the body, gender, and masculinities." -- Trenton M. Haltom,Culture, Society, and Masculinites(August 2016), While we may think of white-collar masculinity as the timid commuter in the gray flannel suit, Erynn Masi de Casanova's erudite book demonstrates that middle-class men understood that such complacent conformity was the price tag for class, race, and gender dominance. Being buttoned-down meant having privilege neatly sewn up., " Buttoned Up is a compelling and engaging analysis of the ways that men in white-collar professions understand the significance of clothes."--Adia Harvey Wingfield, Washington University in St. Louis, author of No More Invisible Man: Race and Gender in Men's Work, Buttoned Up is a compelling and engaging analysis of the ways that men in white-collar professions understand the significance of clothes., Buttoned Up evokes sociological thought through considerations of the embodiment of gender, social constructions of dress style, and differences across age, region, or workplace. The book reads like a well-rounded documentary on white-collar dress: delving into histories, uncovering biographies, exploring workplace habitats, pondering symbolic meanings, and comparing geographies.... Scholars can make use of this book in a myriad of interdisciplinary courses on fashion and identity formation, the body, gender, and masculinities., I love this thought-provoking book; it is a pleasure to read. Erynn Masi de Casanova offers a nuanced and detailed exploration of a taken-for-granted and understudied topic: white-collar men's bodies. Buttoned Up attends to issues of ethnicity, sexuality, age, place, and company culture as they intersect in complex ways with masculinity and bourgeois class. It is a terrific example of qualitative social science research; Casanova's in-depth interviews support her theoretical insights., Chiefly concerned with the embodiment of white-collar work.... Men shared with Casanova their thoughts on professional dress (workplace dress codes, where they shopped, and where they learned about fashion), their interactions with others at work, and their relationships with men and women., "Office culture is full of passive aggressions and radical uncertainties. Buttoned Up is a delightfully firm hook on which to hang your hat, if hats are your thing. The author has a fun, personable tone. She's not heavy on numbers or footnotes or jargon. The language is not dry or overly academic, though academics are the obvious target audience. I hope Buttoned Up is read by a lot of regular people, because it's about regular people and more regular people could use some reassurance that they've been reading their work situations correctly."--Megan Volpert, PopMatters (January 6, 2016), Office culture is full of passive aggressions and radical uncertainties. Buttoned Up is a delightfully firm hook on which to hang your hat, if hats are your thing. The author has a fun, personable tone. She's not heavy on numbers or footnotes or jargon. The language is not dry or overly academic, though academics are the obvious target audience. I hope Buttoned Up is read by a lot of regular people, because it's about regular people and more regular people could use some reassurance that they've been reading their work situations correctly.
Table of Content
Introduction1. Playing by the Rules: Dress Codes in Corporate Workplaces Trading Places 2. Just Like Dad? Family Relations and Class Origins in Dressing for White-Collar Work Watches and Shoes 3. Putting On the Uniform: Choice, Obligation, and Collective Identity Tailor Tales 4. The Metrosexual Is Dead, Long Live the Metrosexual! Zuck's Hoodie 5. What about Women? Gender and Dress at Work and Home A Man Should Never Wear ___. 6. The F Word: Men's Engagement with Fashion Comfort 7. Being/Becoming the Boss: Office Hierarchies and DressConclusion, Introduction1. Playing by the Rules: Dress Codes in Corporate Workplaces Trading Places 2. Just Like Dad? Family Relations and Class Origins in Dressing for White-Collar Work Watches and Shoes 3. Putting On the Uniform: Choice, Obligation, and Collective Identity Tailor Tales 4. The Metrosexual Is Dead, Long Live the Metrosexual! Zuck's Hoodie 5. What about Women? Gender and Dress at Work and Home A Man Should Never Wear ___. 6. The F Word: Men?s Engagement with Fashion Comfort 7. Being/Becoming the Boss: Office Hierarchies and DressConclusion
Copyright Date
2016
Lccn
2015-010594
Dewey Decimal
391.00973
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
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Yes
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