Clothing the Contadini: Migration and Material Culture, 1890–1925

Casey, Evan; Clemente, Deirdre

doi:10.5406/jamerethnhist.36.4.0005

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“…When it comes to misalignments between institutional and individual identity claims, scholars have persuasively demonstrated the links between subversive ideas and subversive dress (Butler 1990; Churchill 2019). However, the association between clothes and institutional belonging also provides opportunities for people to resist by claiming identities that otherwise would be unavailable or inaccessible to them (Casey and Clemente 2017; Patyk 2010; Piepmeier 2004). Consider nineteenth‐century male clerks, who, caught in the fluidity and unpredictability of the social hierarchy of the metropolis, “had to convey the appearance of respectability, without having yet acquired respectable status” (Zakim 2003:115).…”

Section: Dress and Identity In Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Dressed for Death: Gender, Respectability, and Resistance at the Gallows

Linders

Casanova

Shupe

2021

Symbolic Interaction

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In this paper we examine the dress of execution victims. Executions provide both the convict and the state with an opportunity to claim honor and respectability. Drawing on newspaper accounts of executions conducted between 1840 and 1940, we demonstrate that convict attire reveals an important tension between the convicts' gendered character claims and the efforts by execution managers to arrange a credible execution. But whereas displays of masculinity reinforce more than challenge the propriety of executions, women's femininity displays challenge not only the propriety of executions, but also the respectability of those tasked with their killing. We conclude that the subversive potential of clothing is found not only in the garments themselves, nor only on the wearers' intentions, but also on the institutional settings in which they are presented.

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Section: Dress and Identity In Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%