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Author: Jonathan Faiers Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300227205 Category : Fur Languages : en Pages : 242
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A groundbreaking, informative, and thought-provoking exploration of fur's fashionable and controversial history The first and only book of its kind, Fur: A Sensitive History looks at the impact of fur on society, politics, and, of course, fashion. This material has a long, complex, and rich history, culminating in recent and ongoing anti-fur debates. Jonathan Faiers discusses how fur--long praised for its warmth, softness, and connotation of status--became so controversial, at the center of campaigns against animal cruelty and the movement toward ethical fashion. At the same time, fake fur now faces a backlash of its own, given the environmental impact of its manufacture and its links to fast fashion. Divided into five sections--dedicated to hair, pelt, coat, skin, and fleece--the book surveys not only the politics of fur but also its centrality to western fashion, the tactile pleasure it gives, and its use in literature, art, and film. This thoughtfully reasoned, eloquently written, and spectacularly illustrated examination of fur is both timely and essential, filling a gap in fashion scholarship and appealing to a broad audience.
Author: Jonathan Faiers Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300227205 Category : Fur Languages : en Pages : 242
Book Description
A groundbreaking, informative, and thought-provoking exploration of fur's fashionable and controversial history The first and only book of its kind, Fur: A Sensitive History looks at the impact of fur on society, politics, and, of course, fashion. This material has a long, complex, and rich history, culminating in recent and ongoing anti-fur debates. Jonathan Faiers discusses how fur--long praised for its warmth, softness, and connotation of status--became so controversial, at the center of campaigns against animal cruelty and the movement toward ethical fashion. At the same time, fake fur now faces a backlash of its own, given the environmental impact of its manufacture and its links to fast fashion. Divided into five sections--dedicated to hair, pelt, coat, skin, and fleece--the book surveys not only the politics of fur but also its centrality to western fashion, the tactile pleasure it gives, and its use in literature, art, and film. This thoughtfully reasoned, eloquently written, and spectacularly illustrated examination of fur is both timely and essential, filling a gap in fashion scholarship and appealing to a broad audience.
Author: Jardine Libaire Publisher: Hogarth Press ISBN: 0451497929 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 321
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"When Elise Perez meets Jamey Hyde on a desolate winter afternoon, fate implodes, and neither of their lives will ever be the same. Although they are next-door neighbors in New Haven, they come from different worlds. Elise grew up in a housing project without a father and didn't graduate from high school; Jamey is a junior at Yale, heir to a private investment bank fortune and beholden to high family expectations. Nevertheless, the attraction is instant, and what starts out as sexual obsession turns into something greater, stranger, and impossible to ignore."--
Author: Audrey Penn Publisher: ISBN: 9780439221153 Category : Cats Languages : en Pages : 36
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A curious cat has been warned to stay away from a nest with duck eggs in it, but when a storm puts the eggs in danger, the cat's actions have surprising consequences.
Author: Jennifer Boothroyd Publisher: Lerner Digital ™ ISBN: 1512462845 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 24
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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! Some mammals have a little fur or hair, others have a lot! Learn how fur helps these animals survive.
Author: Richard Scarry Publisher: ISBN: 9780008665395 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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When Mr Frumble decides to help out Santa, Christmas in Busytown becomes the busiest Christmas ever! Busytown is preparing for Christmas and Mr. Frumble is so full of Christmas cheer that he decides to go straight to the North Pole to become one of Santa Bear's helpers. But when Santa Bear mixes up the dates and takes off the night before the night before Christmas, it looks as if Christmas in Busytown is ruined. But can the ever-clumsy Mr Frumble find a way to save Christmas? A festive Christmas story filled with detailed illustrations, humour, and adventure. The Night Before the Night Before Christmas! is the perfect for children-and Scarry fans of all ages.
Author: Jonathan Schlesinger Publisher: Stanford University Press ISBN: 1503600688 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 288
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In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, booming demand for natural resources transformed China and its frontiers. Historians of China have described this process in stark terms: pristine borderlands became breadbaskets. Yet Manchu and Mongolian archives reveal a different story. Well before homesteaders arrived, wild objects from the far north became part of elite fashion, and unprecedented consumption had exhausted the region's most precious resources. In A World Trimmed with Fur, Jonathan Schlesinger uses these diverse archives to reveal how Qing rule witnessed not the destruction of unspoiled environments, but their invention. Qing frontiers were never pristine in the nineteenth century—pearlers had stripped riverbeds of mussels, mushroom pickers had uprooted the steppe, and fur-bearing animals had disappeared from the forest. In response, the court turned to "purification;" it registered and arrested poachers, reformed territorial rule, and redefined the boundary between the pristine and the corrupted. Schlesinger's resulting analysis provides a framework for rethinking the global invention of nature.
Author: Julia Emberley Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 9780801484049 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 278
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Emberley documents the 1980s confrontations between animal rights activists and native peoples that pitted Lynx, the organization responsible for the high-profile anti-fur ads in Great Britain, against Inuit and Dene societies' claims for a livelihood based on the selling and trading, consumption and production of animal fur. From colonial fur trading to twentieth-century globalization of the fur industry, Emberley analyzes the cultural, political, material, and libidinal values ascribed to fur.
Author: Marilyn Singer Publisher: Millbrook Press ™ ISBN: 1541552369 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 40
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Why are humans and other mammals covered in hair, and why are there so many different types of it? Vivid photographs paired with a duo of quirky, illustrated hair guides serve to illuminate fascinating facts about mammal hair: why it exists, what it's good for, and more. Readers will learn about different types of animal coats, such as fur and down, and explore the many different forms guard hairs take, such as the quills on a porcupine.
Author: Diane Lang Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1481447106 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 48
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Come along on a rhyming tour through the amazing animal kingdom—from mammals to millipedes and everything in between—with this engaging picture book about how all creatures are connected! There are so many wild and wonderful animals in our world. Some have fur, some have feathers, some have fins, but all are connected. This fact-filled rhyming exploration of the diversity of the animal kingdom celebrates mammals, birds, insects, fish, reptiles, amphibians, and more! It’s a perfect match for budding naturalists and animal enthusiasts everywhere.
Author: Jonathan Faiers
Author: Jonathan Faiers
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