Fashion & society books

2327 books were found.

The Clothed Body

The Clothed Body

Author: Patrizia Calefato ,  Lisa Adams
ISBN: 9781859738009
Format: Hardback
$240.00

Demonstrates how clothing is analogous to a working language and is similarly underpinned by meanings and philosophies....  Read More >>

Fans in Spain

Fans in Spain

Author: Nancy Armstrong
ISBN: 9780856675942
Format: Hardback
$277.20

This is an examination of the long history of fans in Spain and their place within the country's decorative arts....  Read More >>

Kwaidan Stories And Studies Of Strange Things

Kwaidan Stories And Studies Of Strange Things

Author: Lafcadio Hearn
ISBN: 9781419128851
Format: Paperback
$50.03

Japanese tales, translated by Lafcadio Hearn.  Read More >>

Fairy Tales From The Arabian Nights

Fairy Tales From The Arabian Nights

Author: E. Dixon
ISBN: 9781419119088
Format: Paperback
$65.87

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Legends Of Maui

Legends Of Maui

Author: W. D. Westervelt
ISBN: 9781419129575
Format: Paperback
$50.03

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The Story Of Pocahantas

The Story Of Pocahantas

Author: Charles Dudley Warner
ISBN: 9781419183966
Format: Paperback
$42.11

The simple story of the life of Pocahontas is sufficiently romantic without the embellishments which have been wrought...  Read More >>

Welsh Fairy Tales

Welsh Fairy Tales

Author: William Elliot Griffis
ISBN: 9781419193385
Format: Paperback
$55.31

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1921 Original Publisher: Thomas Y. Crowell Co. Subjects:...  Read More >>

Japanese Fairy Tales

Japanese Fairy Tales

Author: Yei Theodora Ozaki
ISBN: 9781596050082
Format: Paperback
$28.91

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Fashioning Gothic Bodies

Fashioning Gothic Bodies

Author: Catherine Spooner ,  Rebecca Mortimer
ISBN: 9780719064012
Format: Paperback
$38.99

This innovative book is the first to make an explicit link between constructions of the body in Gothic literature...  Read More >>

Nazi Chic: Fashioning Women in the Third Reich

Nazi Chic: Fashioning Women in the Third Reich

Author: Professor Irene Guenther
ISBN: 9781859737170
Format: Paperback
$76.99

Deals comprehensively with German fashion from World War I through to the end of the Third Reich. This book explores...  Read More >>

Nazi Chic: Fashioning Women in the Third Reich

Nazi Chic: Fashioning Women in the Third Reich

Author: Professor Irene Guenther
ISBN: 9781859734001
Format: Hardback
$260.00

Deals comprehensively with German fashion from World War I through to the end of the Third Reich. This book explores...  Read More >>

Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture

Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture...

Author: Valerie Steele
ISBN: 9781859738115
Format: Paperback
$81.71

Provides an international and interdisciplinary forum for the analysis of cultural phenomena ranging from foot binding...  Read More >>

Gender and the Boundaries of Dress in Contemporary Peru

Gender and the Boundaries of Dress in Contemporary Peru...

Author: Blenda Femenías
ISBN: 9780292702639
Format: Paperback
$56.95

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The Language of Dress: Resistance and Accommodation in Jamaica, 1750-1890

The Language of Dress: Resistance and Accommodation...

Author: Steeve O. Buckridge ,  Rex M. Nettleford
ISBN: 9789766401436
Format: Paperback
$59.40

his book is a study of how African slave and freed women used their fashion and style of dressing as a symbol of...  Read More >>

The Japanese Revolution in Paris Fashion

The Japanese Revolution in Paris Fashion

Author: Yuniya Kawamura
ISBN: 9781859738108
Format: Hardback
$240.00

Shows how traditional French fashion has been both disturbed and strengthened by the addition of outside forces...  Read More >>

Godey'S Fashions Paper Dolls 1860-1879

Godey'S Fashions Paper Dolls 1860-1879

Author: Ming-Ju Sun
ISBN: 9780486434247
Format: Paperback
$24.99

"From the publication that was the ""last word"" on clothing styles of the period: elegant evening dresses, lavish...  Read More >>

National Geographic Moments: Hats

National Geographic Moments: Hats

Author: Leah Bendavid-Val
ISBN: 9780792265634
Format: Hardback
$19.95

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Food and Clothing

Food and Clothing

Author: Daniel Gilpin
ISBN: 9780816054411
Format: Hardback
$92.40

A a style of dressing or preparing a meal goes much deeper than taste or image, for choices in food and clothing...  Read More >>

Mallarmé on Fashion: A Translation of the Fashion Magazine La Dernière Mode, with Commentary

Mallarmé on Fashion: A Translation of the Fashion Magazine...

Author: A. M. Cain ,  P. N. Furbank
ISBN: 9781859737231
Format: Paperback
$69.99

"In 1874, the great French poet, Stephane Mallarme, undertook a highly idiosyncratic project - the publication of...  Read More >>

Unzipping Gender: Sex, Cross-Dressing and Culture

Unzipping Gender: Sex, Cross-Dressing and Culture

Author: Charlotte Suthrell
ISBN: 9781859737255
Format: Paperback
$69.99

How does culture shape notions of sexuality and gender? Why are transvestites in the West so often seen as 'deviant'...  Read More >>

Mallarmé on Fashion: A Translation of the Fashion Magazine La Dernière Mode, with Commentary

Mallarmé on Fashion: A Translation of the Fashion Magazine...

Author: A. M. Cain ,  P. N. Furbank
ISBN: 9781859737187
Format: Hardback
$240.00

"In 1874, the great French poet, Stephane Mallarme, undertook a highly idiosyncratic project - the publication of...  Read More >>

Unzipping Gender: Sex, Cross-Dressing and Culture

Unzipping Gender: Sex, Cross-Dressing and Culture

Author: Charlotte Suthrell
ISBN: 9781859737200
Format: Hardback
$240.00

Drawing on fieldwork, this book offers a cross-cultural study of transvestism through an examination of transvestites...  Read More >>

Fashioning London: Clothing and the Modern Metropolis

Fashioning London: Clothing and the Modern Metropolis...

Author: Christopher Breward
ISBN: 9781859737927
Format: Paperback
$69.99

Over the past three centuries, London has established itself as one of the world's most inventive fashion capitals....  Read More >>

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