Thesis: Military Uniforms in the 18th century: Gender, Power and Politics (ANU 2008)
This thesis argued that military dress in the 18th century was a vehicle for the dissemination of notions of masculinity and legitimate political power. It proposed that a particular type of masculinity, heroic masculinity, became the hegemonic model that established normative modern masculinity. It demonstrated that military dress is entwined with markers such as wealth, power, gender, class, cultivation, identity, hierarchy, status and rank. In using these markers, military uniforms and military -like fashion were used to legitimate and maintain political power.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
2009 Case study contributor The Fashion Book by Jennifer Craik Berg Publications, New York and Oxford
2008 “Walking with Darwin” Surface Design Journal
“Uniform Appearance: the male neoclassic body” IFFTI Conference Papers, RMIT
2007 “Vision of Masculinity” Kingpower Masculinities, conference paper, RMIT http://mams.rmit.edu.au/wujqn6myvcy.pdf
2007 ‘Duck suits to Dandies Berlin’ Uniformierungen in Bewegung, Waxman, Munster & New York pp. 275- 289
2006 Craik, Jennifer; Peoples, Sharon “Vivienne Westwood: 34 Years in Fashion” Fashion Theory Journal of Dress, Body and Culture, vol 10 No 3, Sept 2006, pp387-399, Berg Publications, Oxford & New York
2004 Peoples S.M “Currency Cloth” Reinventing Textiles, Postcolonialism and Creativity vol. 3, eds. Paul Sharrad and Anne Collett, Telos Art Publishing, Bristol,
Catalogue essays:
Women in a Changing City March 1995
Scintilla July 1998
