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Anne Hollander. Sex and Suits: The Evolution of Modern Dress. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994.

Christopher Breward. The Suit: Form, Function & Style. London: Reaktion Books, 2016.

Daniel Miller. Material Culture and Mass Consumption. Oxford, United Kingdom: Basil Blackwell, 1987.

Dominique Gaulme and François Gaulme. Power and Style: A World History of Politics and Dress (Paris: Flammarion, 2012).

Erica Cheonoweth and Maria J. Stephan. Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011.

Francesco Bonami, Maria Luisa Frisa, and Stefano Tonchi (eds.). Uniform: Order and Disorder. Milan: Charta, 2000.

Gilles Lipovetsky. The Empire of Fashion: Dressing Modern Democracy. Trans. Catherine Porter. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1994.

James Scott. Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990.

James Servin. “Chic Or Cruel?” in the New York Times, November 1, 1992. Accessed on April 25, 2019 < https://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/01/style/chic-or-cruel.html >

Jennifer Craik. Uniforms Exposed: From Conformity to Transgression. New York: Berg, 2005.

Linton Weeks. “Tragedy Gives the Hoodie a Whole New Meaning,” on NPR, March 24, 2012. Accessed May 2, 2018 < https://www.npr.org/2012/03/24/149245834/tragedy-gives-the-hoodie-a-whole-new-meaning >

Lisa Trivedi. Clothing Gandhi’s Nation: Homespun and Modern India. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2007.

Michel Foucault. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. Trans. Alan Sheridan. New York: Vintage Books (Random House), 1977.

Michel Foucault. The History of Sexuality Volume 1: An Introduction. Trans. Robert Hurley. New York: Vintage Books (Random House), 1990.

Nathan Joseph. Uniforms and Nonuniforms: Communication through clothing, New York: Greenwood, 1986.

Naomi Klein. No Logo. New York: Picador, 2000.

Peter McNeil and Giorgio Riello. Luxury: A Rich History. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Peter Morriss. Power: A Philosophical Analysis. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2002.

Philip Mansel. Dressed to Rule: Royal and Court Costume from Louis XIV to Elizabeth II. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005.

Philippe Perrot. Fashioning the Bourgeoisie: A History of Clothing in the Nineteenth Century. Trans. Richard Bienvenu. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1994.

Pierre Bourdieu. Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste. Trans. Richard Nice. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1984.

Rebecca Arnold. Fashion, Desire and Anxiety: Image Morality in the 20th Century. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2001.

Robin Givhan. “Condoleezza Rice’s Commanding Clothes,” in The Washington Post, February 25, 2005. Accessed April 2, 2019 <https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2005/02/25/condoleezza-rices-commanding-clothes/e7dbedfe-4e60-4e37-a210-ed8733f29d0b/?utm_term=.01bbd4b19cd8>

Steven Lukes. Power: A Radical View. Second Edition. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2005.

Stuart Hall (ed.). Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices. London: Sage Publications, 1997.

Tanisha C. Ford. Liberated Threads: Black Women, Style and the Global Politics of Soul. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2015.

Thorstein Veblen. The Theory of the Leisure Class. New York: MacMillan Company, 1899.

Valerie Steele. Fashion and Eroticism: Ideals of Feminine Beauty from the Victorian Era Through the Jazz Age. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 1985.

Valerie Steele. Fetish: Fashion, Sex and Power. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Vanessa Friedman. “The Mess of Modern Power Dressing,” in the New York Times. March 14, 2019.