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Why do we dress the way we do? Why has fashion changed and evolved over the centuries? How did the 3-piece suit come about? What is a ruff? Why have hemlines risen and fallen over time? Why did a suntan replace the pale, peaches-and-cream face as the sign of a high-class woman? In this book, fashion specialist Colin McDowell goes beyond standard fashion histories and narrative surveys to answer all these questions and more. Fashion is both functional and expressive we wear clothes to keep warm or for protection but they also articulate the way we feel and are often used to impress. Fashion trends are influenced by history and their social context. For example, the waistcoat is often believed to have been introduced as part of the Victorian 3-piece suit. In fact, it was brought to England by Charles II in 1666 after his restoration and return from exile at the French court. Samuel Pepys, diarist and civil servant, wrote: 'The King hath yesterday in council declared his resolution of setting a fashion for clothes which he will never alter. It will be a vest, I know not well how.' Charles wanted the new garment to be part of a restrained national dress for gentlemen and the vest flourished throughout Georgian times as a show-off garment made of rich silks and heavily embroidered, often in silver and gold

Alles, was wir Menschen tun, tun wir als leiblich strukturierte Wesen: Vom Stoffwechsel angefangen über unsere Bewegungen bis hin zur Kommunikation. Nicht umsonst heißt es im Deutschen: »Wie er / sie leibt und lebt. In vielen gesellschaftlichen und wissenschaftlichen Debatten scheint dagegen die Leiblichkeit des Menschen aus dem Blick zu geraten. So kommt es z. B. in der Gehirnforschung vor, dass der Mensch auf ein Wesen aus Gehirn und Geist reduziert betrachtet wird. Der vorliegende Band greift die Leibthematik aus medizinischer, philosophischer und theologischer Sicht ebenso wie aus der Perspektive von Literaten, Tänzern und Künstlern auf. Mit Beiträgen von Mónica E. Alarcón Dávila, Thomas Fuchs, Manuela Fuelle, Hanna-Barbara Gerl-Falkovitz, Achim Hahn, Martin Hähnel, Christian Ide Hintze, Regine Kather, Marcus Knaup, Roland Kohlhaas, Jutta Pagel-Steidl, Günter Rager, Joseph Ratzinger (Benedikt XVI.), Harald Seubert, Jörg Scheller, Eberhard Schockenhoff, Patrick Spät, Magnus Striet, Johannes Weise.

The sovereign heart -- The porous heart -- The engendering heart -- The animate heart

The turn of the twentieth century represented a crossroads in the French experience of modernization, especially in regard to ideas about gender and sexuality. Drawing together prominent scholars in French gender history, this volume explores how historians have come to view this period in light of new theoretical developments since the 1980s