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Unfolding the Past (Hardcover)
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Unfolding the Past (Hardcover)
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"Fascinating." Perspective "A fascinating, often funny, and
eminently stylish personal memoir ... I loved it." - Chris Breward,
author of The Suit "Wide-ranging, thought-provoking and important."
- Claire Wilcox, author of Patch Work Elizabeth Wilson is a pioneer
of fashion studies, yet she never intended to become an academic.
Starting her literary career as a feminist activist writing for the
underground press, she went on to explore tennis, 'bohemians' and
of course fashion - her obsession - along with forays into fiction.
Throughout, she has never seen her work as abstract or disengaged
from 'real life'. In her memoir, she traces this relationship
between personal experience and her writing, revisiting pivotal
moments from childhood, adolescence and adult life to explore her
belief that research, by its nature, is always a form of
autobiography. She unfolds the garment of her life in a
wide-ranging exploration of scenes from her past: her difficult
relationship with her mother, fashion in the 60s and gay
liberation. In this journey through time she shows how experiences
are inseparable from the way we seek to explain and understand
them, offering a unique and deeply personal account of her - and
our - cultural world.
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