Uniforms and Nonuniforms: Communication Through Clothing

by Nathan Joseph

Clothing serves as a system of signs that helps to order social interaction by identifying and locating individuals and groups within society. In the first in-depth study to analyze the communicative character of uniforms and other types of clothing, Nathan Joseph examines how clothing functions in a variety of social contexts to enforce norms, maintain institutional power, identify group membership, and express or suppress individuality.

257 pages, Hardcover

First published November 3, 1986