Location
University of Windsor
Document Type
Paper
Keywords
Actio, Capitalism, Gender, Identity, Nonverbal images, Mannequins, Modernity, Rhetoric
Start Date
18-5-2011 9:00 AM
End Date
21-5-2011 5:00 PM
Abstract
This collaborative paper examines the visual rhetoric of mannequins: the embodied media representation of the future consumer. Citing material evidence from Sweden, the USA, Egypt, Singapore, and China, the paper explores the visual arguments of mannequins as they embody female and male con-structions of identity, position, and power, both reflecting and shaping social doxa with regard to gender norms, sexuality, religious behavior, end even nationality.
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The rhetoric of store-window mannequins
University of Windsor
This collaborative paper examines the visual rhetoric of mannequins: the embodied media representation of the future consumer. Citing material evidence from Sweden, the USA, Egypt, Singapore, and China, the paper explores the visual arguments of mannequins as they embody female and male con-structions of identity, position, and power, both reflecting and shaping social doxa with regard to gender norms, sexuality, religious behavior, end even nationality.
