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I Am What I Wear: The Use Of Dress In Constructing And Evaluating Sexual Identity, Jean Stevens
I Am What I Wear: The Use Of Dress In Constructing And Evaluating Sexual Identity, Jean Stevens
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This thesis explores different disciplinary studies and discussions of dress, and more specifically, the use of dress in constructing a gendered identity and sexual identity. To conduct this research, I performed a literature review and referenced various social psychological, sociological, and/or feminist theoretical frameworks. I argue that dress cannot serve as any sort of innate or accurate indicator of sexual identity; rather, the meanings associated with dress are socially produced and vary across time and place. Evidence for this argument emerges only after a literature review, as one can recognize a common theme linking the literature, or perhaps a commonly …