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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.

Material Strategies: Dress and Gender in Historial Perspective

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Paperback / softback by Barbara Burman , Carole Turbin

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    Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
    Publication Date: 22/07/2003
    ISBN13: 9781405109062, 978-1405109062
    ISBN10: 1405109068

    Number of Pages: 276

    Non Fiction , History

    Description

    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.

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