Overview

Dress is one of the most significant markers of gender identity, yet is only rarely explored in depth. This volume addresses the relationship between gender and dress, opening up fascinating aspects by covering a great variety of ethnographic areas reaching from Asia, Europe and Africa to North and South America. The time span is equally wide-ranging and offers present-day material as well as studies based on historical data.

Full Product Details

Author:   Ruth Barnes ,  Joanne B. Eicher (The University of Minnesota, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Berg Publishers
Volume:   v. 5
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.355kg
ISBN:  

9780854968657

ISBN 10:   0854968652
Pages:   303
Publication Date:   14 April 1993
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

R. Barnes and J. Eicher, Introduction - J. Eicher and N.E. Roach-Higgins, Dress and Gender: Definition and Classification of Dress: Implications for Analysis of Gender Roles - R. Barnes, Women as Headhunters: The Making and Meaning of Textiles in a Southeast Asian Context - L. Lefferts, Cut and Sewn: The Textiles of Social Organisation in Thailand - D. Geirnaert, Purse-Proud: Of Betel and Areca Nut Bags in Laboya (West Sumba, Eastern Indonesia) - C. Pancake, Gender Boundaries in the Production of Guatamalan Textiles - S. Baizerman, The Jewish Kippa Sruga and the Social Construction of Gender in Israel - C. Cerny, Quilted Apparel and Gender Identity: An American Case Study - L. Sciama, Lace Making in Venetian Culture - P. Dransart, Pachamama: The Inka Earth Mother of the Long Sweeping Garment - S. Michelman and T. Erekosima, Kalabari Dress in Nigeria: visual Analysis and Gender Implications - L. Cort, Whose Sleeves? Gender, Class, and Meaning in Japanese Dress of the Seventeenth Century - J. Leslie, The Significance of Dress for the Orthodox Hindu Woman - O.P. Joshi, Continuity and Change in Hindu Women's Dress - H. Callaway, Dressing for Dinner in the Bush: Rituals of Self-Definition and British Imperial Authority - R. Bailey, Clothes Encounters of the Gynecological Kind: Medical Mandates and Maternity Modes USA, 1850-1990 - M. Young, Dress and Modes of Address: Structural Forms for Policewomen

Reviews

'...this important, thought-provoking work, breaks new ground and could conceivably spawn future Women's Studies research in many lands and languages.'Dress...a rich and diverse collection of essays, with a wide ethnographic and historical range that makes it a valuable and useful book for those interested in either dress or gender, and indispensable for those interested in both.Journal of the Anthropological Society of OxfordThis excellent volume should serve as a useful resource.Choice'... an extremely rich analysis of dress as a form of gender identification.'ITAA Newsletter

'...this important, thought-provoking work, breaks new ground and could conceivably spawn future Women's Studies research in many lands and languages.' Dress ...a rich and diverse collection of essays, with a wide ethnographic and historical range that makes it a valuable and useful book for those interested in either dress or gender, and indispensable for those interested in both. Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford This excellent volume should serve as a useful resource. Choice '... an extremely rich analysis of dress as a form of gender identification.' ITAA Newsletter

Author Information

Ruth Barnes Ashmolean Museum,Oxford Joanne B. Eicher Regents' Professor, Department of Design, Housing and Apparel, University of Minnesota

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