Kikot’ A. Costume in Ukrainian culture: gender representation

Українська версія

Thesis for the degree of Doctor of Science (DSc)

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0510U000626

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Specialization

  • 26.00.04 - Українська культура

03-09-2010

Specialized Academic Board

Д 64.807.01

Kharkiv State Academy of Culture

Essay

Subject – costume in Ukrainian culture.This dissertation is a complex research devoted to analysing Ukrainian traditional costume as well as contemporary costume in Ukraine in the context of gender theory and practice. It is argued that the notion of costume belongs to the key ones in the present-day culturology; it manifests itself in specific instantiations of national identity, masculinity/femininity, bodily practices and processes of signification. A conception has been substantiated that costume is considered as a message in the language of visual signs and as a «cultural body» of a human with the help of which every culture creates its individuality. The sphere of analysis is culturology, Ukrainian culture

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