Defense of Doctoral dissertation: Anna Hanchett

Thesis defence

Date: Friday 4 October 2024

Time: 13.00 – 15.00

Location: F-Salen, Filmhuset

Welcome to defense of dissertation in Filmhuset, 13.00.

Foto: Josiah Hanchett

Anna Hanchett of Department of Media Studies, Section for Fashion Studies defends her dissertation: Sartorial Becomings: Women, Tailored Suits, and Feminine Difference.

Opponent: Ilya Parkins, Professor of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies at University of British Columbia.

 Open for public. Most welcome!

This research explores women’s becomings through tailored suits. Previous research on women’s engagement with the suit has attributed the practice to masculinity, with the consequences of such association limiting women’s embodiment of the item to masculine representations, thereby neglecting women as full subjects within contexts of tailoring. The aim of the study, then, is to remove the suit from the hold of a masculine symbolic. This aim is realized by exploring how historical, cultural and societal factors influence the assumptions made about women’s subjectivity within the context of tailoring and how women respond to these assumptions. (excerpt from abstract Doctoral thesis)

Link to the Doctoral Thesis