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.
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)
Last updated: September 17, 2024
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