Dress and gender : making and meaning in cultural contexts / edited by Ruth Barnes and Joanne B. Eicher.
"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 Nort...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Berg,
1992.
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| Series: | Cross-cultural perspectives on women.
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| Online Access: | Contributor biographical information |
| Summary: | "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."--Publisher description. |
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| Item Description: | 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. |
| Physical Description: | viii, 293 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0854967206 9780854967209 0854968652 9780854968657 |