Dress and Gender: Making and Meaning (Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Women) [Paperback]

Ruth Barnes (Editor), Joanne B. Eicher (Editor)

Book Description

Series: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Women | Publication Date: April 14, 1993

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.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"...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

About the Author

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

Product Details

• Paperback: 204 pages
• Publisher: Berg Publishers (April 14, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0854968652
• ISBN-13: 978-0854968657
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #461,742 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Joanne B. Eicher was born in Lansing, Michigan, the daughter of a Lutheran minister and artist/weaver mother. She graduated from Eastern High School and received a B.A., M.A. and PhD from Michigan State University and taught at Boston University, Michigan State University and University of Minnesota. Now Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, she has written extensively about the cultural significance of dress and conducted fieldwork in Nigeria. One of her books, Mother, Daughter, Sister, Bride: Rituals of Womanhood (2005), was published by National Geographic. She has traveled widely and lectured in the UK, Europe, India, China, Korea, Australia, and Nigeria.