Class Id: 7839
Days: W
Start Time: 07:30 PM
End Time: 10:20 PM
Building: MARXH
Room: 101
Course Id: 3458
Departments and Numbers: AAS 314, COM 396
Area: LA
Title: Model Memoirs: The Life Stories of International Fashion Models
Description: Explores the life-writing of American, African, and Asian women in the fashion industry as a launching point for thinking about race, gender, and class. How do ethnicity and femininity intersect? How are authenticity and difference commodified? How do women construct identities through narrative and negotiate their relationships to their bodies, families, and nations? This course will include guest lectures by fashion editors and models; discussions of contemporary television programs, global fashion, and cultural studies; and student self-narratives about their relationships with cultural standards of beauty, whether vexed or not.
Prerequisites: None
Professors: Wendy L. Belcher
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