| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.4

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Wendy Parkins, editor. Fashioning the Body Politics: Dress, Gender, Citizenship. New York: Berg. 2002. Pp. xi, 260. Cloth $68.00, paper $22.50.

These days, the body and fashioning are receiving a great deal of scholarly attention in the fields of literary criticism, sociology, and psychology as well as history, but while the titles of some studies may play with sartorial puns, most have little to do with clothing. In contrast, editor Wendy Parkins's carefully worded title means what is says: the eleven essays (including the introduction and afterthoughts) look at clothing and the human body (usually female)/body politic (usually male) and their roles in nationalism. Much of the introduction is spent defining vocabulary and establishing the importance of clothing/body as a site of national identity, imperial expansion, and gender difference within the shifting political and economic configurations of a variety of times and places. Several of the contributors make it clear that women have often been used as a metaphor to represent countries and thus are bound to definitions of national identity in ways that differ significantly from men.

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