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Title:

Dress and gender : making and meaning in cultural contexts / edited by Ruth Barnes and Joanne B. Eicher.

Publisher:

Distributed exclusively in the U.S. and Canada by St. Martin's Press,
Distributed exclusively in the U.S. and Canada by St. Martin's Press,

Copyright Date:

1992

Description:

viii, 293 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Costume--Cross-cultural studies.--Cross-cultural studies.
Costume--Cross-cultural studies.--Cross-cultural studies.

Other Authors:

Barnes, Ruth, 1947-
Eicher, Joanne Bubolz.

Notes:

The essays in this volume were presented during a workshop titled "Dress and Gender: Making and Meaning" which was held in April 1989 in Oxford. Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Series:

Cross-cultural perspectives on women ;

ISBN:

9780854968657
0854968652
9780854967209
0854967206

OCLC:

(OCoLC)23694139

LCCN:

91015885

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

O3AX572 -- Cornell College - Russell D. Cole Library (Mount Vernon)

PGAX715 -- Northwest Iowa Community College Library - Sheldon (Sheldon)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)