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Dressed for Freedom Gillian Douglas Filling a gap in academicOften condemned as a form of oppression, fashion could and did allow women to express modern gender identities and promote feminist ideas. Einav Rabinovitch Fox examines how clothes empowered women, and particularly women barred from positions of influence due to race or class. Moving from 1890s shirtwaists through the miniskirts and unisex styles of the 1970s, Rabinovitch Fox shows how the rise of mass media culture made fashion a vehicle for women