Shahidha Bari
BBC broadcaster and academic, Shahidha Bari is the author of Dressed: A Philosophy of Clothes.
Shahidha Bari is Senior Lecturer in Romanticism at Queen Mary University of London and Fellow of the Forum for European Philosophy at the LSE. She was one of the first ever BBC Radio 3 New Generation Thinkers in 2011. She writes for the TLS, Times Higher, Guardian and Financial Times. She features regularly on BBC Radio 4's Saturday Review, Front Row & Woman's Hour, and she is an occasional presenter of BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking.
Shahidha Bari is Senior Lecturer in Romanticism at Queen Mary University of London and Fellow of the Forum for European Philosophy at the LSE. She was one of the first ever BBC Radio 3 New Generation Thinkers in 2011. She writes for the TLS, Times Higher, Guardian and Financial Times. She features regularly on BBC Radio 4's Saturday Review, Front Row & Woman's Hour, and she is an occasional presenter of BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking.
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Dressed: A Philosophy of Fashion
The Secret Life of Clothes
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Vanity, Victory and Vice
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