Gender, Nation and the Politics of Dress in Twentieth-Century Philippines

被引:8
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作者
Roces, Mina [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ New South Wales, Sch Hist, Sydney, NSW, Australia
来源
GENDER AND HISTORY | 2005年 / 17卷 / 02期
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10.1111/j.0953-5233.2006.00385.x
中图分类号
K [历史、地理];
学科分类号
06 ;
摘要
This paper examines the politics of dress in twentieth-century Philippines, exploring the imbrication of dress, politics and gender. It argues that there was an inherent tension between Western Dress/Filipino Dress in the period as the contrast between these two types of dress came to represent opposing political and gendered identities. The visual categories of Western Dress/Filipino Dress did not always 'naturally' correspond to not nationalist/nationalist, powerful/disempowered, modern/traditional, or even other/self. The gendering of costume mirrored men's and women's positioning in the political axis of the nation as the status of 'bearer and wearer of national tradition' shifted from women to men once the colony became an independent nation-state.
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