Dress and gender: making and meaning in cultural contexts/
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York:
Berg: Distributed exclusively in the U.S. and Canada by St. Martin's Press,
1992
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| Series: | Cross-cultural perspectives on women
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Table of Contents:
- Definition and classification of dress : implications for analysis of gender roles / Joanne B. Eicher and Mary Ellen Roach-Higgins
- Women as headhunters : the making and meaning of textiles in a southeast Asian context / Ruth Barnes
- Cut and sewn : the textiles of social organization in Thailand / H. Leedom Lefferts, Jr.
- Purse-proud : of betel and areca nut bags in Laboya (west Sumba, eastern Indonesia) / Danielle Geirnaert
- Gender boundaries in the production of Guatemalan textiles / Cherri M. Pancake
- The Jewish kippa sruga and the social construction of gender in Israel / Suzanne Baizerman
- Quilted apparel and gender identity : an American case study / Catherine Cerny
- Lacemaking in Venetian culture / Lidia Sciama
- Pachamama : the Inka earth mother of the long sweeping garment / Penny Dransart
- Kalabari dress in Nigeria : visual analysis and gender implications / Susan O. Michelman and Tonye V. Erekosima. Whose sleeves .. ? : gender, class, and meaning in Japanese dress of the seventeenth century / Louise Allison Cort
- The significance of dress for the orthodox Hindu woman / Julia Leslie
- Continuity and change in Hindu women's dress / O.P. Joshi
- Dressing for dinner in the bush : rituals of self-definition and British imperial authority / Helen Callaway
- Clothes encounters of the gynecological kind : medical mandates and maternity modes in the USA, 1850-1990 / Rebecca Bailey
- Dress and modes of address : structural forms for policewomen / Malcolm Young.