Material Strategies

B Burman

• 22 juli 2003
• 9781405109062

Samenvatting:

Material Strategies brings together scholars from different disciplines to explore what dress and textiles can tell us about gender history. * Broad in scope -- covers women, men, social groupings and nations from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.

Material Strategies brings together scholars from different disciplines to explore what dress and textiles can tell us about gender history. Experts from the fields of dress, design and textile history, business history, cultural anthropology, social history, art history and cultural history consider particular periods, places, individual garments, and moments of transformation. The book is broad in scope, covering women, men, social groupings and nations from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. At the same time, it incorporates illustrations that provide detailed visual evidence for gendered strategies of dress.

Material Strategies both demonstrates the potential of this field of enquiry and helps to define its parameters. A jargon-free style makes it accessible to readers from a wide range of backgrounds.

Material Strategies brings together scholars from different disciplines to explore what dress and textiles can tell us about gender history.

• 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.