Hey Alex - so I spoke with my colleague, Sarah Stacey - who very kindly came back with this little lot for you....
"I know Yuniya Kawamura has written about Japanese fashion, both designer and subcultural. Her book Fashioning Japanese Subcultures should be useful and she is an accessible writer. I also had a quick look and found some journal articles, which look useful based on the abstracts. The only journal I am familiar with is the Fashion Theory one, which is a well-respected one.
Japanese fashion cultures [electronic resource] : dress and gender in contemporary Japan by Masafumi Monden looks very useful and has a lot on Lolita’s (interestingly the summary mentions that ‘the "Lolita Style" adopted by some Japanese young women might reflect not the expected retreat into childhood fantasy but a quest for independence and autonomy’)
Yuniya Kawamura ‘The Globalization of Japanese Lolita Fashion’ in Fusion Fashion: Culture beyond Orientalism and Occidentalism (Lehnert & Mentges eds.)(This book is not available in the library but perhaps the library can source it)
Osmud Rahman, Liu Wing-Sun, Elita Lam & Chan Mong-Tai ‘”Lolita”: Imaginative self and elusive consumption’ in Fashion Theory, vol 15, issue 1 2011
Zi Young Kang and Tracy Cassidy ‘Lolita Fashion: a trans global culture’ in Fashion, Style & Popular Culture, Vol 2, Number 3, 2015
An Nguyen ‘Eternal Maidens: Kawaii aesthetics and otome sensibility in Lolita fashion’ in East Asian Journal of Popular Culture, Vol 2, issue 1, 2016
In relation to femininity and its construction and performance, more generally, your student could try… Samantha Holland Alternative femininities : body, age, and identity
Efrat Tseëlon The masque of femininity : the presentation of woman in everyday life."
Hey Alex - so I spoke with my colleague, Sarah Stacey - who very kindly came back with this little lot for you....
ReplyDelete"I know Yuniya Kawamura has written about Japanese fashion, both designer and subcultural. Her book Fashioning Japanese Subcultures should be useful and she is an accessible writer. I also had a quick look and found some journal articles, which look useful based on the abstracts. The only journal I am familiar with is the Fashion Theory one, which is a well-respected one.
Japanese fashion cultures [electronic resource] : dress and gender in contemporary Japan by Masafumi Monden looks very useful and has a lot on Lolita’s (interestingly the summary mentions that ‘the "Lolita Style" adopted by some Japanese young women might reflect not the expected retreat into childhood fantasy but a quest for independence and autonomy’)
Yuniya Kawamura ‘The Globalization of Japanese Lolita Fashion’ in Fusion Fashion: Culture beyond Orientalism and Occidentalism (Lehnert & Mentges eds.)(This book is not available in the library but perhaps the library can source it)
Osmud Rahman, Liu Wing-Sun, Elita Lam & Chan Mong-Tai ‘”Lolita”: Imaginative self and elusive consumption’ in Fashion Theory, vol 15, issue 1 2011
Zi Young Kang and Tracy Cassidy ‘Lolita Fashion: a trans global culture’ in Fashion, Style & Popular Culture, Vol 2, Number 3, 2015
An Nguyen ‘Eternal Maidens: Kawaii aesthetics and otome sensibility in Lolita fashion’ in East Asian Journal of Popular Culture, Vol 2, issue 1, 2016
In relation to femininity and its construction and performance, more generally, your student could try…
Samantha Holland Alternative femininities : body, age, and identity
Efrat Tseëlon The masque of femininity : the presentation of woman in everyday life."