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OverviewPeople often wear their causes on their t-shirts, in their choice of traditional attire or other garments, or by way of specific costumes, pieces of jewellery or particular accessories. In Was It Something I Wore? Dress; identity; materiality, the contributors explore the construction and performance of personal and social identities. The essays point to the significance of dress as material culture in social science research not only in their content but also in their focus on a variety of methodologies including memory work, visual studies, autoethnography, object biographies and other forms of textual analysis. The framing question, Was it something I wore? is central to the many dress questions the book raises; questions that challenge the socio-political status quo. To what extent does dress visually signify the construction of a chosen identity and a chosen performance? How does dress position the body and identity in different social and cultural spaces? How does dress signify oppression and/or liberation for women and how might this differ for men? What is the role of dress in the constructions of schooling and contemporary childhood? In its exploration of these and other questions, Was it something I wore? addresses a variety of pertinent social issues that confront communities in southern Africa. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Relebohile Moletsane , Claudia Mitchell , Ann SmithPublisher: HSRC Press Imprint: HSRC Press Dimensions: Width: 16.80cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.10cm Weight: 0.636kg ISBN: 9780796923622ISBN 10: 0796923620 Pages: 384 Publication Date: 01 February 2012 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationRelebohile Moletsane is a professor and the J. L. Dube Chair in Rural Education at University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN). They are the coauthors of Methodologies for Mapping a Southern African Girlhood in the Age of Aids. Claudia Mitchell is a James McGill Professor on the faculty of education at McGill University and an honorary professor at UKZN. She is the coauthor of Just Who Do We Think We Are? and Reinventing Ourselves as Teachers. She lives in Montreal, Quebec. Ann Smith is a doctoral supervisor at the University of the Witwatersrand, an adjunct professor at McGill University, and the managing editor of Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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