Material Strategies: Dress and Gender in Historial Perspective
Book Details
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN / ASIN
1405109068
ISBN-13
9781405109062
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Sales Rank
#3,860,906
Category
History
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United States 🇺🇸
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Description
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 wide range of backgrounds.
