{"product_id":"material-strategies-9781405109062","title":"Material Strategies","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMaterial 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This stands out as a vaulable summation of the many approaches which, in shorthand, can be described as 'the new dress history'.\" \u003ci\u003eValerie Cummings\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This book is a significant, interdisciplinary consideration of the gendered characteristics of clothing that provides new conceptual frameworks and methodologies for the interpretation of attire across tiem and culture. \u003ci\u003eMaterial Strategies\u003c\/i\u003e should further move clothing and fashion scholarship out of its ghetto and into the mainstream. \u003ci\u003eTextile History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Material Strategies Engendered: Barbara Burman (University of Southampton) and Carole Turbin (SUNY\/Empire State College). \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Dress, Textiles and Social Transitions in Pre-industrial Europe:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Fashion, Time and the Consumption of a Renaissance Man in Germany: The Costume Book of Matthaus Schwarz of Augsburg, 1496-1564: Gabriele Mentges (University of Dortmund).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Reflections on Gender and Status Distinction: An Analysis of the Liturgical Textiles Recorded in Mid-Sixteenth-Century London: Maria Hayward (University of Southampton).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Identity and Eroticism, Consumption and Production, from the Early\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eSeventeenth to the Mid-Twentieth Century:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Following Suit: Men, Masculinity and Gendered Practices in the Clothing Trade in Leeds, England, 1890-1940: Katrina Honeyman (University of Leeds).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Pocketing the Difference: Gender and Pockets in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Barbara Burman (University of Southampton).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Fashioning the American Man: The Arrow Collar Man, 1907-1931: Carole Turbin.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Erotic Modesty: (ad)dressing Female Sexuality and Propriety in Open and Closed Drawers, USA, 1800-1930: Jill Fields (California State University, Fresno).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Fashion Strategies for Reconfiguring Nations and Social Groups in the Early\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eTwentieth Century:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. ‘De-Humanised Females and Amzonians’: British Wartime Fashion and its Representation in Home Chat, 1914-1918: Cheryl Buckley (University of Northumbria).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Fashion, the Politics of Style and National Identity in Pre-Fascist and Fascist Italy: Eugenia Paulicelli (City University of New York).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Style and Subversion: Postwar Poses and the Neo-Edwardian Suit in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain: Christopher Breward (London College of Fashion).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. ‘Anti-Mini Militants Meet Modern Misses’: Urban Style, Gender and the Politics of ‘National Culture’ in 1960s Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: Andrew M. Ivaska (University of Michigan).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Dressing for Leadership in China: Wives and Husbands in an Age of Revolutions (1911-1976): Verity Wilson (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407844254039,"sku":"9781405109062","price":22.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781405109062.jpg?v=1730500717","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/material-strategies-9781405109062","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}