Diana crane biography

Diana Crane is professor emerita of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania.
DIANA CRANE is associate professor of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania.
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September 29, 1941 — May 17, 2022

Actress / Westminster Choir College Professor

Born in Devon, England to James and Joyce Wharton on September 29, 1941, Diana Joy Crane was a caring wife, mother, granny, teacher, and friend. She left this world suddenly on May 17, at the age of 80.

An actress and retired college professor, Diana spent her life giving joy and comfort to others. Countless former students, colleagues, friends, and family have been on the receiving end of Diana’s gifts. Her neighbors in Princeton and later the Cherry Valley section of Montgomey Township were also acquainted with her grace and charm. She most recently lived in The Woodlands, Texas.

Affectionately known as Lady Green Eyes, Diana entertained countless people from the stage during her days with the Princeton Cabaret. Her cheeky, British humor and brilliant theatrical performances often brought the house down with laughter. She sang songs like “Nobody Loves a Fairy When She’s Forty,” “Send in the Clones,” “The Warthog,” and “Hard-Hearted Hannah” and often had her audience in stitches

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Diana Crane-Herve, Ph.D.

Diana Crane is professor emerita of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. Her book, Transformation of the Avant Garde - discusses the rise of Abstract Expressionism, when New York City became the acknowledged center of the avant-garde. Diana Crane documents the transformation of the New York art world between 1940 and 1985, both in the artistic styles that emerged during this period and the expansion of the number and types of institutions that purchased and displayed various works.

In her most recent book, Fashion and Its Social Agendas: Class, Gender, and Identity in Clothing, Dr. Crane compares nineteenth-century societies France and the United States where social class was the most salient aspect of social identity signified in clothing with late twentieth-century America, where lifestyle, gender, sexual orientation, age, and ethnicity are more meaningful to individuals in constructing their wardrobes. Today, clothes worn at work signify social class, but leisure clothes convey meanings ranging from trite to political. In today's multicode

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It has long been said that clothes make the man (or woman), but is it still true today? If so, how has the information clothes convey changed over the years? Using a wide range of historical and contemporary materials, Diana Crane demonstrates how the social significance of clothing has been transformed.

Crane compares nineteenth-century societies—France and the United States—where social class was the most salient aspect of social identity signified in clothing with late twentieth-century America, where lifestyle, gender, sexual orientation, age, and ethnicity are more meaningful to individuals in constructing their wardrobes. Today, clothes worn at work signify social class, but leisure clothes convey meanings ranging from trite to political. In today's multicode societies, clothes inhibit as well as facilitate communication between highly fragmented social groups.

Crane extends her comparison by showing how nineteenth-century French designers created fashions that suited lifestyles of Paris elites but that were also widely adopted outside France. By contrast, today's design