Försvar av doktorsavhandling: Anna Hanchett

Disputation

Datum: fredag 4 oktober 2024

Tid: 13.00 – 15.00

Plats: F-salen Filmhuset

Välkommen till försvar av doktorsavhandling i Filmhuset, 13.00.

Foto: Josiah Hanchett

 

Anna Hanchett från Institutionen för mediestudier, Enheten för modevetenskap försvarar sin avhandling: Sartorial Becomings: Women, Tailored Suits, and Feminine Difference.

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

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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