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1 online resource : 15 halftones, 1 line figure |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-248) and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Sep 2018) |
| Subject |
Clothing and dress -- Social aspects -- United States
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Men -- United States -- Social life and customs
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Sex role -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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White collar workers -- United States.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
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Clothing and dress -- Social aspects
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Men -- Social life and customs
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Sex role
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White collar workers
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Berufskleidung
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Männerkleidung
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Büroangestellter
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Kläder -- sociala aspekter.
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Manskläder -- sociala aspekter.
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Tjänstemän.
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United States
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USA
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781501700965 |
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1501700960 |
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