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Material Strategies: Dress and Gender in Historial Perspective
Burman
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Description for Material Strategies: Dress and Gender in Historial Perspective
Paperback. Material Strategies brings together scholars from different disciplines to explore what dress and textiles can tell us about gender history. * Broad in scope -- covers women, men, social groupings and nations from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. Editor(s): Burman, Barbara; Turbin, Carole. Series: Gender and History Special Issues. Num Pages: 280 pages, 0. BIC Classification: AKTA; HBTB; JFCK; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 380.
Material Strategies brings together scholars from different disciplines to explore what dress and textiles can tell us about gender history.
- Broad in scope – covers women, men, social groupings and nations from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
- Rich in detail – incorporates illustrations that provide visual evidence for gendered strategies of dress.
- Combines perspectives from design and textile history, business history, cultural anthropology, social history, art history and cultural history.
- Considers 'material strategies' in relation to production and consumption, the public and the private, the body and sexuality, and national identity.
- Written in a jargon-free style, making it accessible to readers from a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Series
Gender and History Special Issues
Number of Pages
276
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United States
ISBN
9781405109062
SKU
V9781405109062
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-50
About Burman
Barbara Burman teaches at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, where she is Director of the Centre for the History of Textiles and Dress. Her research interests and publications focus on the cultural and social history of dress and textiles in the modern period. She edited The Culture of Sewing: Gender, Consumption and Home Dressmaking (Berg. 1999). ... Read more
Reviews for Material Strategies: Dress and Gender in Historial Perspective
"This stands out as a vaulable summation of the many approaches which, in shorthand, can be described as 'the new dress history'." Valerie Cummings "This book is a significant, interdisciplinary consideration of the gendered characteristics of clothing that provides new conceptual frameworks and methodologies for the interpretation of attire across tiem and culture. Material ... Read more