Title Lycra : How A Fiber Shaped America

Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (193 pages) Series Routledge Series for Creative Teaching and Learning in Anthropology Routledge series for creative teaching and learning in anthropology. Contents Cover; lycra how a fiber shaped america; copyright; contents; illustrations; series foreword; preface; acknowledgments 1. introduction: lycra, the ethnographic moment and the anthropology of stuff2. dupont: culture, kinship and myth 3. dupont's family of fibers and the birth of lycra4. launching lycra; 5. lycra, aerobics and the rise of the legging 6. another ethnographic momentnotes; references; index Summary First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company Notes Print version record Subject E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company -- History SUBJECT E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company fast Subject Sport clothes industry -- History Baby boom generation -- History Baby boom generation Sport clothes industry Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780203829905 0203829905

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