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Fashion as a Means of Overcoming Liminality: The Construction of an American Woman's "Self" in Anzia Yezierska's Bread Givers and Margaret Dilloway's How to Be an American Housewife
Ist Teil von
Americana (Hollywood, Calif.), 2017-04, Vol.16 (1)
Ort / Verlag
Hollywood: Americana: The Institute for the Study of American Popular Culture
Erscheinungsjahr
2017
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Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
According to Butler, Beauvoir "suggests that gender is an aspect of identity gradually acquired" (qtd. in "Sex and Gender" 35), and Butler believes that this gradual acquisition is culturally influenced: "Becoming a gender is an impulsive yet mindful process of interpreting a cultural reality laden with sanctions, taboos, and prescriptions. [...]in her discussion of the sartorial details of the novel, Meredith Goldsmith calls Masha "an imitator of a Fifth Avenue lady" (40),because Masha is just that: an imitator, for in reality, her identity as a greenhorn remains unaltered by such superficial change, especially in the eyes of knowing Americans. [...]no one is really surprised when it is revealed that Moe is a fraud and has been fired from his job as a mere salesman at the neighborhood jewelry store. Suga also points out the "post-World War II" goal of "catching up to the West" (98) and states that “western dress dominates Japan's everyday apparel scene” (98). [...]it is not surprising that Shoko, a young woman in the years after World War II has ended, is informed about and sports American clothing, rather than the traditional Japanese kimono.