Dress and Gender: Making and Meaning (Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Women)

ISBN 10: 0854968652 / ISBN 13: 9780854968657

Published by Berg Publishers, 1993

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dress and Gender: Making and Meaning (Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Women)
• Publisher: Berg Publishers
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0854968652
• ISBN 13: 9780854968657
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Dress is one of the most significant markers of gender identity, yet is only rarely explored in depth. This volume addresses the relationship between gender and dress, opening up fascinating aspects by covering a great variety of ethnographic areas reaching from Asia, Europe and Africa to North and South America. The time span is equally wide-ranging and offers present-day material as well as studies based on historical data.

About the Authors

Ruth Barnes is at Ashmolean Museum.

Joanne B. Eicher is Regents Professor Emerita at the University of Minnesota. Joanne is Editor-in-Chief, Encyclopedia of Dress and Fashion (Bloomsbury and OUP); Series Editor, Dress, Body, Culture (Bloomsbury) and Dress and Fashion Research (Bloomsbury); Editor, Global Trade and Cultural Authentication: The Kalabari of the Niger Delta; and Co-Author, The Visible Self, (Fairchild); Dress and Gender (Berg); Dress and Ethnicity (Berg); Beads and Beadmakers (Berg); Mother, Daughter, Sister, Bride (National Geographic); and a wide variety of published articles in professional journals and chapters in books.