Dress and Gender: Making and Meaning

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Dress and Gender: Making and Meaning
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Ruth Barnes
Edited by Joanne B. Eicher
SeriesCross-Cultural Perspectives on Women
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:303
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 138
ISBN/Barcode 9780854968657
ClassificationsDewey:391
Audience
Undergraduate
Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations illustrations, bibliography, index

Publishing Details

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint Berg Publishers
Publication Date 14 April 1993
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Dress is one of the most significant markers of gender identity, yet is only rarely explored in depth. This volume addresses the relationship between gender and dress, opening up fascinating aspects by covering a great variety of ethnographic areas reaching from Asia, Europe and Africa to North and South America. The time span is equally wide-ranging and offers present-day material as well as studies based on historical data.

Author Biography

Ruth Barnes Ashmolean Museum,Oxford Joanne B. Eicher Regents' Professor, Department of Design, Housing and Apparel, University of Minnesota

Reviews

'...this important, thought-provoking work, breaks new ground and could conceivably spawn future Women's Studies research in many lands and languages.' Dress ...a rich and diverse collection of essays, with a wide ethnographic and historical range that makes it a valuable and useful book for those interested in either dress or gender, and indispensable for those interested in both. Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford This excellent volume should serve as a useful resource. Choice '... an extremely rich analysis of dress as a form of gender identification.' ITAA Newsletter