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Material Strategies: Dress and Gender in Historial Perspective

Barbara Burman (Editor), Carole Turbin (Editor)
ISBN: 978-1-4051-0906-2
Paperback
276 pages
August 2003, Wiley-Blackwell
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  • Broad in scope – covers women, men, social groupings and nations from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
  • Rich in detail – incorporates illustrations that provide visual evidence for gendered strategies of dress.
  • Combines perspectives from design and textile history, business history, cultural anthropology, social history, art history and cultural history.
  • Considers ‘material strategies’ in relation to production and consumption, the public and the private, the body and sexuality, and national identity.
  • Written in a jargon-free style, making it accessible to readers from a wide range of backgrounds.

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