{"product_id":"material-strategies-dress-and-gender-in-historial-perspective-paperback-softback-9781405109062","title":"Material Strategies; Dress and Gender in Historial Perspective (Paperback \/ softback) 9781405109062","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMaterial Strategies\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eDress and Gender in Historial Perspective\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBarbara Burman (Edited by), B Burman (Author), Carole Turbin (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781405109062, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 22 July 2003\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e280 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.2 x 15.4 x 1.6 cm, 0.481 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"This stands out as a vaulable summation of the many approaches which, in shorthand, can be described as 'the new dress history'.\" \u003ci\u003eValerie Cummings\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c!--end--\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This book is a significant, interdisciplinary consideration of the gendered characteristics of clothing that provides new conceptual frameworks and methodologies for the interpretation of attire across tiem and culture. \u003ci\u003eMaterial Strategies\u003c\/i\u003e should further move clothing and fashion scholarship out of its ghetto and into the mainstream. \u003ci\u003eTextile History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaterial Strategies\u003c\/i\u003e brings together scholars from different disciplines to explore what dress and textiles can tell us about gender history.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eBroad in scope – covers women, men, social groupings and nations from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eRich in detail – incorporates illustrations that provide visual evidence for gendered strategies of dress.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCombines perspectives from design and textile history, business history, cultural anthropology, social history, art history and cultural history.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eConsiders 'material strategies' in relation to production and consumption, the public and the private, the body and sexuality, and national identity.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eWritten in a jargon-free style, making it accessible to readers from a wide range of backgrounds.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: Material Strategies Engendered: Barbara Burman (University of Southampton) and Carole Turbin (SUNY\/Empire State College). \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Dress, Textiles and Social Transitions in Pre-industrial Europe:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Fashion, Time and the Consumption of a Renaissance Man in Germany: The Costume Book of Matthaus Schwarz of Augsburg, 1496-1564: Gabriele Mentges (University of Dortmund).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Reflections on Gender and Status Distinction: An Analysis of the Liturgical Textiles Recorded in Mid-Sixteenth-Century London: Maria Hayward (University of Southampton).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Identity and Eroticism, Consumption and Production, from the Early\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eSeventeenth to the Mid-Twentieth Century:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Following Suit: Men, Masculinity and Gendered Practices in the Clothing Trade in Leeds, England, 1890-1940: Katrina Honeyman (University of Leeds).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Pocketing the Difference: Gender and Pockets in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Barbara Burman (University of Southampton).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Fashioning the American Man: The Arrow Collar Man, 1907-1931: Carole Turbin.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Erotic Modesty: (ad)dressing Female Sexuality and Propriety in Open and Closed Drawers, USA, 1800-1930: Jill Fields (California State University, Fresno).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Fashion Strategies for Reconfiguring Nations and Social Groups in the Early\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eTwentieth Century:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. ‘De-Humanised Females and Amzonians’: British Wartime Fashion and its Representation in Home Chat, 1914-1918: Cheryl Buckley (University of Northumbria).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Fashion, the Politics of Style and National Identity in Pre-Fascist and Fascist Italy: Eugenia Paulicelli (City University of New York).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Style and Subversion: Postwar Poses and the Neo-Edwardian Suit in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain: Christopher Breward (London College of Fashion).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. ‘Anti-Mini Militants Meet Modern Misses’: Urban Style, Gender and the Politics of ‘National Culture’ in 1960s Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: Andrew M. Ivaska (University of Michigan).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Dressing for Leadership in China: Wives and Husbands in an Age of Revolutions (1911-1976): Verity Wilson (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Sociology%20\u0026amp;%20anthropology%20%5BJH%5D%22\"\u003eJH\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52173688602904,"sku":"9781405109062","price":22.58,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781405109062.jpg?v=1781167130","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/material-strategies-dress-and-gender-in-historial-perspective-paperback-softback-9781405109062","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}