Material Strategies: Dress and Gender in Historial Perspective

Material Strategies brings together scholars from different disciplines to explore what dress and textiles can tell us about gender history.

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• 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 wide range of backgrounds.