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Dress, Law and Naked Truth - A Cultural Study of Fashion and Form (Hardcover, New)
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Dress, Law and Naked Truth - A Cultural Study of Fashion and Form (Hardcover, New)
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This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open
Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.
Why are civil authorities in so-called liberal democracies
affronted by public nudity and the Islamic full-face 'veil'? Why is
law and civil order so closely associated with robes, gowns, suits,
wigs and uniforms? Why is law so concerned with the 'evident' and
the need for justice to be 'seen' to be done? Why do we dress and
obey dress codes at all? In this, the first ever study devoted to
the many deep cultural connections between dress and law, the
author addresses these questions and more. His responses flow from
the radical thesis that 'law is dress and dress is law'. Engaging
with sources from The Epic of Gilgamesh to Shakespeare, Carlyle,
Dickens and Damien Hirst, Professor Watt draws a revealing history
of dress and civil order and offers challenging conclusions about
the nature of truth and the potential for individuals to fit within
the forms of civil life.
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