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Title Dress and gender : making and meaning in cultural contexts / edited by Ruth Barnes and Joanne B. Eicher
Published New York : Berg : Distributed exclusively in the U.S. and Canada by St. Martin's Press, 1992

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Description viii, 293 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Series Cross-cultural perspectives on women
Cross-cultural perspectives on women.
Contents Definition and classification of dress : implications for analysis of gender roles / Joanne B. Eicher and Mary Ellen Roach-Higgins -- Women as headhunters : the making and meaning of textiles in a southeast Asian context / Ruth Barnes -- Cut and sewn : the textiles of social organization in Thailand / H. Leedom Lefferts, Jr. -- Purse-proud : of betel and areca nut bags in Laboya (west Sumba, eastern Indonesia) / Danielle Geirnaert -- Gender boundaries in the production of Guatemalan textiles / Cherri M. Pancake -- The Jewish kippa sruga and the social construction of gender in Israel / Suzanne Baizerman -- Quilted apparel and gender identity : an American case study / Catherine Cerny -- Lacemaking in Venetian culture / Lidia Sciama -- Pachamama : the Inka earth mother of the long sweeping garment / Penny Dransart -- Kalabari dress in Nigeria : visual analysis and gender implications / Susan O. Michelman and Tonye V. Erekosima
Whose sleeves ... ? : gender, class, and meaning in Japanese dress of the seventeenth century / Louise Allison Cort -- The significance of dress for the orthodox Hindu woman / Julia Leslie -- Continuity and change in Hindu women's dress / O.P. Joshi -- Dressing for dinner in the bush : rituals of self-definition and British imperial authority / Helen Callaway -- Clothes encounters of the gynecological kind : medical mandates and maternity modes in the USA, 1850-1990 / Rebecca Bailey -- Dress and modes of address : structural forms for policewomen / Malcolm Young
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Notes 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Clothing and dress -- Social aspects -- Cross-cultural studies.
Costume -- Sex differences -- Cross-cultural studies.
Costume -- Social aspects -- Cross-cultural studies.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Barnes, Ruth, 1947-
Eicher, Joanne Bubolz.
LC no. 91015885
ISBN 0854967206
0854968652