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‘Power Dressing’ and the Construction of the Career Woman by Joanne Entwistle

‘Power Dressing’ and the Construction of the Career Woman by Joanne Entwistle. Fashion History and Culture Thursday 1 November 2012. What are 'technologies of the self’?.

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‘Power Dressing’ and the Construction of the Career Woman by Joanne Entwistle

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  1. ‘Power Dressing’ and the Construction of the Career Womanby Joanne Entwistle Fashion History and Culture Thursday 1 November 2012

  2. What are 'technologies of the self’? • In the theory.org.uk quiz, there is a question about Foucault's term 'technologies of the self', which (in the answer) I said 'basically refers to ways in which people put forward, and police, their "selves" in society; and ways in which they are enabled or constrained in their use of different techniques by available discourses'. • Jason Mittell from the University of Wisconsin- Madison wrote to me and suggested this: "Technologies of the self are the specific practices by which subjects constitute themselves within and through systems of power, and which often seem to be either 'natural' or imposed from above". • And Jennifer Webb of Queensland Art Gallery sent me this: "Technologies of the self are a series of techniques that allow individuals to work on themselves by regulating their bodies, their thoughts and their conduct". • Suzanne Bachman suggests: "Technologies of the self are self-conscious moments of behavior, thought and action precipitated by one's simultaneous awareness of their relation to the interior of the exterior and/or the exterior of the interior". • Ernst Buchberger from the University of Vienna says: "Technologies of the self' are methods employed by people resulting in how they will be perceived as 'selves' by 'others' and them'selves'". • Jessica Matthews of Sarah Lawrence College suggests: "Technologies of the self are the mechanisms employed by individuals and society, for better or worse, which perpetuate the public consumption of and regulation of individuality“.

  3. Power Dressing: Joan Crawford in Mildred Pierce and Ingrid Bergman in Hitchcock’s Spellbound

  4. ‘Dress for Success’ • How does the idea of the “preforming self” help us understand the public career woman? (211)

  5. The Managed Heart: Arlie Russell Hochschild

  6. What is the future of the Working Girl?

  7. Image Consulting and Dressing Manuals: Exaggeration or New Reality?

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