Buttoned up : clothing, conformity, and white-collar masculinity / Erynn Masi de Casanova.
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TextPublisher: Ithaca : ILR Press, 2015Description: 288 pages : illustrationsContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781501700491 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Clothing and dress -- Social aspects -- United States | Men's clothing -- United States | Sex role -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Men -- United States -- Social life and customs | White collar workers -- United States | Beauty and Fashion | Beauty and FashionDDC classification: 391'.00973 Summary: Who is today's white-collar man? The world of work has changed radically since 'The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit' and other mid-20th-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 scrutinised in everyday interactions. Based on interviews with dozens of men in three US 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Who is today's white-collar man? The world of work has changed radically since 'The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit' and other mid-20th-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 scrutinised in everyday interactions. Based on interviews with dozens of men in three US 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.
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