Material Strategies: Dress and Gender in Historial PerspectiveISBN: 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.