A comparative historical study of English and French men's self-fashioning, with reference to gender, sexual and national identity, c1740-90

Funding: 2002: $42,672

Project Member(s): McNeil, P.

Funding or Partner Organisation: Australian Research Council (ARC Discovery Projects)

Start year: 2002

Publications:

McNeil, PK 2018, 'A fold of clothing is a trace of passion ​' in Hug, C & Becker, C (eds), Fashion Drive: Extreme Clothing in the Visual Arts, Kerber Culture/Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld, pp. 40-49.

McNeil, PK 2017, '‘Beauty in Search of Knowledge’: from fashion doll to the world of print' in Welch, E (ed), Fashioning the Early Modern Dress, Textiles, and Innovation in Europe, 1500-1800, Oxford University Press, Oxford.

McNeil, PK 2017, '‘Drawing with Light’: male photography and the queer trace' in Perram, R (ed), The Unflinching Gaze: photomedia and the male figure, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst, pp. 29-62.

McNeil, PK 2017, 'Introduction' in A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Age of Enlightenment, Bloomsbury, UK, pp. 1-22.
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McNeil, PK 2016, '‘Despots of Elegance’: Men’s Fashion 1715-1910' in Takeda, SS, Spilker, KD & Esguerra, C (eds), Reigning Men: Fashion in Menswear, 1715-2015, Prestel Publishing, Germany, pp. 235-248.

McNeil, PK 2016, ''Everything degenerates’: The Queer Buttonhole’' in Kranz, I, Schwan, A & Wittrock, E (eds), Floriographie: Die Sprachen der Blumen/The Languages of Flowers: Media of Floral Communication, Wilhelm Fink, Berlin, pp. 389-408.

McNeil, PK 2015, 'Mode, Blumen und botanisches Wissen (Fashion, flowers and botanical knowledge)' in Furor Floralis Textildesign und Landschaftsarchitektur, Textilmuseum, St Gallen Switzerland, pp. 1-2.

FOR Codes: Art Theory and Criticism, Art history, theory and criticism

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