Dress Sense: Emotional and Sensory Experiences of the Body and Clothes

Author:   Donald Clay Johnson ,  Helen Bradley Foster
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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9781845206932


Pages:   208
Publication Date:   01 November 2007
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Donald Clay Johnson ,  Helen Bradley Foster
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Berg Publishers
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.291kg
ISBN:  

9781845206932


ISBN 10:   1845206932
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   01 November 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction, Helen Bradley Foster and Donald Clay Johnson Part I. Historical Perspectives 1. Sight, Sound, and Sentiment in Greek Village Dress, Linda Welters, University of Rhode Island 2. More than Costume History: Dress in Somali Culture, Heather Marie Akou, Indiana University 3. Dress, Hungarian Socialism, and Resistance, Katalin Medvedev, University of Minnesota 4. Clothes Make the Empire: British Dress in India, Donald Clay Johnson, University of Minnesota 5. African American Enslavement and Escaping in Disguise, Helen Bradley Foster, University of Minnesota Part II. Living Traditions 6. Indian Madras Plaids as Real India, Sandra Evenson, University of Idaho 7. The Role of Scents and the Body in Turkey, Marlene Breu, Western Michigan University 8. Awakening the Senses: the Aesthetics of Moroccan Berber Dress, Cynthia Becker, Boston University 9. The Power of Touch: Women's Waistbeads in Ghana, Suzanne Gott, Kansas City Art Institute 10. Performing Dress and Adornment in Southeastern Nigeria, Sarah Adams, University of Iowa Part III. Challenging Traditions 11. Women, Migration, and the Experience of Dress, Mary A. Littrell, Colorado State University and Jennifer Paff Ogle, Colorado State University 12. Handmade Textiles: Manufacturing African Authenticity, Victoria L. Rovine, University of Florida 13. Growing Old and Dressing (Dis)Gracefully, Annette Lynch, University of Northern Iowa, M. Elise Radina, Miami University and Marybeth C. Stalp, University of Northern Iowa Part IV. The Future 14. Embodying the Feminine: Male-to-Female cross-Dressing, Jane E. Hegland, South Dakota State University and Nancy Nelson Hodges, University of North Carolina 15. Virtual Sensation: Dress Online, Suzanne Loker, Cornell University and Susan P. Ashdown, Cornell University

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These essays open new vistas. Highly recommended. -- B. B. Chico, Regis University * CHOICE *


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Donald Clay Johnson is Curator, Ames Library of South Asia, University of Minnesota. Helen Bradley Foster is Lecturer, University of Minnesota.

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