Fashion and the change of the relationship with the body

doi:10.21608/jssa.2019.38691

Fashion and the change of the relationship with the body

Document Type : Original Article

10.21608/jssa.2019.38691

Abstract

This study focuses on the relationship between the body –
especially woman's body – and the dress, and the changes which
happened in that relation. Moreover, the study tries to examine the
influence of the process of Modernization on women's body and the body
image through dress. It's also discusses the feminist discourse related to
that relation.
The study depended on a secondary data selected from previous
studies on the relationship between dress and the body. It's also depended
on the Feminism as a theoretical perspective.
The study concluded some findings related to the sub-questions
that the study focuses. These findings reflected the nature of the social
change and the body in general and the woman's body in particular, and
at what extent the clothes had changed the relation with the body
especially at the Modernity and post Modernity.

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