{"product_id":"9798216448860","title":"Dressed for the Party Fashion and Politics in Socialist Cuba","description":"\u003ch3\u003eDress Cultures\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eDressed for the Party\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eFashion and Politics in Socialist Cuba\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eMaría A. Cabrera Arús | Reina Lewis | Elizabeth Wilson\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eHistory \/ Caribbean \u0026amp; West Indies \/ Cuba\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExplore the politics of fashion in revolutionary and socialist Cuba as María A. Cabrera Arús traces how clothing served as a political technology, and how Cubans turned it into something the state never intended.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDressed for the Party: Fashion and Politics in Socialist Cuba \u003c\/i\u003esets Cuba within a broader history of socialist material culture and Cold War cultural politics, showing that dress was central to the Cuban state's efforts to craft authority and identity - and equally central to the ways citizens adapted, resisted, and redefined those efforts. While the state promoted uniforms, workwear, and nationalist styles as symbols of equality and discipline, Cubans responded with ingenuity by turning to sewing, tailoring, black markets, and kinship networks to dress fashionably.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the olive-green fatigues that defined Fidel Castro's leadership to the often-illegal circulation of foreign apparel, clothing was nationalized, rationed, and policed, but also improvised, repurposed, and desired. Drawing on rare archival materials, institutional records, personal diaries and interviews, and women's magazines, much of it gathered outside a state archive that remains closed, this book reveals fashion as central rather than marginal to post-1959 power, a technology that inscribed authority on bodies and a space of creativity, aspiration, and dissent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eMaría A. Cabrera Arús\u003c\/b\u003e is a sociologist who teaches at the Gallatin School of Individualized Studies, New York University, and Ramapo College, both in the USA. She is the founder of the Archive of Cuban Socialism and coauthor of \u003ci\u003eEl eco de las cosas: los años ochenta en la colección Cuba Material\u003c\/i\u003e (Rialta, 2025) and \u003ci\u003eEl eco de las cosas: los años setenta en la colección Cuba Material\u003c\/i\u003e (Rialta, 2026).\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e13 May 2027\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Visual Arts\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9798216448860\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e256\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e16.0\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62308170334348,"sku":"9798216448860","price":108.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9798216448860","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}