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Dress and gender : making and meaning in cultural contexts
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- Creator
- edited by Ruth Barnes and Joanne B. Eicher
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- New York : Berg : Distributed exclusively in the US and Canada by St. Martin's Press, 1992
- Physical Details
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- viii, 293 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780854967209, 0854967206
- OCLC
- ocm23694139
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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