Buttoned Up : : Clothing, Conformity, and White-Collar Masculinity / / Erynn Masi de Casanova.
Who is today's white-collar man? The world of work has changed radically since The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit and other mid-twentieth-century investigations of corporate life and identity. Contemporary jobs are more precarious, casual Friday has become an institution, and telecommuting blurs...
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Casanova, Erynn Masi de, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Buttoned Up : Clothing, Conformity, and White-Collar Masculinity / Erynn Masi de Casanova. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2016] ©2016 1 online resource (272 p.) : 15 halftones, 1 line figure text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Playing by the Rules -- 2. Just Like Dad? -- 3. Putting On the Uniform -- 4. The Metrosexual Is Dead, Long Live the Metrosexual! -- 5. What about Women? -- 6. The F Word -- 7. Being/Becoming the Boss -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix. Research Methods and Demographic Profile of Interviewees -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Photo gallery restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Who is today's white-collar man? The world of work has changed radically since The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit and other mid-twentieth-century investigations of corporate life and identity. Contemporary jobs are more precarious, casual Friday has become an institution, and telecommuting blurs the divide between workplace and home. Gender expectations have changed, too, with men's bodies increasingly exposed in the media and scrutinized in everyday interactions. In Buttoned Up, based on interviews with dozens of men in three U.S. cities with distinct local dress cultures-New York, San Francisco, and Cincinnati-Erynn Masi de Casanova asks what it means to wear the white collar now.Despite the expansion of men's fashion and grooming practices, the decrease in formal dress codes, and the relaxing of traditional ideas about masculinity, white-collar men feel constrained in their choices about how to embody professionalism. They strategically embrace conformity in clothing as a way of maintaining their gender and class privilege. Across categories of race, sexual orientation and occupation, men talk about "blending in" and "looking the part" as they aim to keep their jobs or pursue better ones. These white-collar workers' accounts show that greater freedom in work dress codes can, ironically, increase men's anxiety about getting it wrong and discourage them from experimenting with their dress and appearance. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Clothing and dress Social aspects United States. Men United States Social life and customs. Sex role United States History 20th century. White collar workers United States. Business (General). Labor History. Sociology & Social Science. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016 9783110667493 print 9780801454189 https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501700965 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501700965 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501700965/original |
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