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In general, however, in the early industrial period gender difference was more firmly marked by dress. Fashion became an important instrument in a heighened consciousness of gendered individuality. ...
Although feminist theory has quesioned whether gender can be simply mapped onto sexuality; it has sometimes still tended to assume that in the end the two coincide. ... This biew sheds an ambiguous light on the radical feminnist account of the subordination of women, which would percive fashion as but one instance of the way in which men impose punishing restriction on women, as an instance of partriarchy; men, they might argue, use dress as a way of imprisoning women within the passive feminine, thus location passivity in the Other and keeping it at a safe distance.
Approximate Word count = 430 Approximate Pages = 1.7 (250 words per page double spaced)
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