ISBN:
1526163403
,
9781526163400
Language:
English
Pages:
xix, 314 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
,
25 cm
Series Statement:
Studies in design and material culture
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Threads of globalization
DDC:
391.0095
Keywords:
Fashion 20th century
;
Textile fabrics 20th century
;
Clothing trade 20th century
;
Fashion and globalization Social aspects
;
Mode et mondialisation - Aspect social
Abstract:
"This richly illustrated, interdisciplinary volume situates fashion, including specific garments, motifs, materials, and methods of production, at the nexus of modernity, tradition, and identity, bringing these factors into Pan-Asian dialogure. exploring the impact of textiles and garments on bothe national and local cultural identity, as well as gender identity and personal expression. Threads of globalization also investigates how garment and textile production has influenced women's creative agency. The final section of the book examines examples of artivism that critique the often-gendered structural violence and environmental impacts of the global fashion industry."-- Cover page 4
Description / Table of Contents:
Front Matter -- Contents -- Introduction: stitching together gender, textile and garment labor, and heritage in Asia -- Part I Fashioning identity: textiles, garments, and belonging -- Wearing a gendered tree: a new style of garments from early modern to twentieth-century China -- Women for cotton and men for wool: consuming gendered textiles in colonized Korea -- Gendered blue: women's jeans in postwar Taiwan -- Bhutanese women and the performance of globalization -- Weaving and dyeing the ideal of reproduction among Shidong Miao in Guizhou province
Description / Table of Contents:
Part II Gendering creative agency: women fashion designers, textile makers, and entrepreneurs -- Soft power: Guo Pei and the fashioning of matriarchy -- Investigating female entrepreneurship in silk weaving in contemporary Cambodia -- (Re)crafting distribution networks for contemporary Philippine textiles: women's advocacy and social enterprise -- Women weaving silken identities and revitalizing various Japanese textile traditions -- Part III Creative voices for change: textiles, gender, and artivism
Description / Table of Contents:
Entangled histories of craft and conflict: the story of phulkari textiles in The Singh Twins's Slaves of Fashion -- The politics of wastefulness and 'the poetics of waste': Ruby Chishti's sartorial interventions -- Made in Rana Plaza: Dilara Begum Jolly's garment factory-themed art -- Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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