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020 _a9781139028059 (ebook)
020 _z9780521761659 (hardback)
020 _z9780521140041 (paperback)
040 _aUkCbUP
_beng
_erda
_cUkCbUP
050 0 0 _aKF390.5.C56
_bR63 2013
082 0 0 _a344.7304/235
_223
100 1 _aRobson, Ruthann,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aDressing Constitutionally :
_bHierarchy, Sexuality, and Democracy from our Hairstyles to our Shoes /
_cRuthann Robson.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2013.
300 _a1 online resource (272 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520 _aThis book examines how the intertwining of clothes and the United States Constitution raises fundamental questions of hierarchy, sexuality and democracy. Constitutional considerations both constrain and confirm daily choices. In turn, appearances provide multilayered perspectives on the Constitution and its interpretations. Garments often raise First Amendment issues of expression or religion, but they also prompt questions of equality on the basis of gender, race and sexuality. At work, in court, in schools, in prisons and on the streets, clothes and grooming provoke constitutional controversies. Additionally, the production, trade and consumption of apparel implicates constitutional concerns including colonial sumptuary laws, slavery, wage and hour laws, and current notions of free trade. The regulation of what we wear - or do not - is ubiquitous. From a noted constitutional scholar and commentator, this book examines the rights to expression and equality, as well as the restraints on government power, as they both limit and allow control of our most personal choices of attire and grooming.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9780521761659
856 4 0 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139028059
942 _2Dewey Decimal Classification
_ceBooks
999 _c37610
_d37610