Material Strategies: Dress and Gender in Historial Perspective (Gender and History Special Issues) (Paperback)

~ Barbara Burman (Editor), Carole Turbin (Editor) "Clothing is one of the most consistently gendered aspects of material and visual culture..." (more)
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"This stands out as a vaulable summation of the many approaches which, in shorthand, can be described as 'the new dress history'." Valerie Cummings

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"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 Strategies should further move clothing and fashion scholarship out of its ghetto and into the mainstream. Textile History

Product Description

Material Strategies brings together scholars from different disciplines to explore what dress and textiles can tell us about gender history. Experts from the fields of dress, design and textile history, business history, cultural anthropology, social history, art history and cultural history consider particular periods, places, individual garments, and moments of transformation. The book is broad in scope, covering women, men, social groupings and nations from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. At the same time, it incorporates illustrations that provide detailed visual evidence for gendered strategies of dress. Material Strategies both demonstrates the potential of this field of enquiry and helps to define its parameters. A jargon-free style makes it accessible to readers from a wide range of backgrounds.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 280 pages
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell (August 29, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1405109068
• ISBN-13: 978-1405109062
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,199,205 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)