ISBN:
1859733883
,
1859733832
Language:
English
Pages:
xiv, 286 p
,
ill
,
24 cm
Series Statement:
Dress, body, culture
DDC:
391.2
Keywords:
Body image
;
Clothing and dress Social aspects
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Frau
;
Kleidung
;
Soziale Stellung
;
Identität
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction / Maura Banim, Eileen Green and Ali GuyYoung women and their wardrobes / Pamela Abbott and Francesca Sapsford -- Big girls' blouses : learning to live with polyester / Alison Adam -- The wedding dress : from use value to sacred object / Susanne Friese -- Choosing an image : exploring women's images through the personal shopper / Kate Gillen -- Suiting ourselves : women professors using clothes to signal authority, belonging and personal style / Eileen Green -- Minding appearances in female academic culture / Susan Kaiser, Joan Chandler and Tania Hammidi -- Black women and self-presentation : appearing in (dis)guise / Anita Franklin -- Resistances and reconciliations : women and body art / Sharon Cahill and Sarah Riley -- 'Flying on one wing' / Jean Spence -- Cancer, breast reconstruction and clothes / Anna van Wersch -- Dis/continued selves : why do women keep clothes they no longer wear? / Maura Banim and Ali Guy -- From closet to wardrobe? / Jan Winn and Diane Nutt -- Ontological, epistemological and methodological clarifications in fashion research : from critique to empirical suggestions / Efrat Tseëlon -- Unpicking the seems / Eileen Green, Maura Banim and Ali Guy.
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction / Maura Banim, Eileen Green and Ali Guy -- Young women and their wardrobes / Pamela Abbott and Francesca Sapsford -- Big girls' blouses : learning to live with polyester / Alison Adam -- The wedding dress : from use value to sacred object / Susanne Friese -- Choosing an image : exploring women's images through the personal shopper / Kate Gillen -- Suiting ourselves : women professors using clothes to signal authority, belonging and personal style / Eileen Green -- Minding appearances in female academic culture / Susan Kaiser, Joan Chandler and Tania Hammidi -- Black women and self-presentation : appearing in (dis)guise / Anita Franklin -- Resistances and reconciliations : women and body art / Sharon Cahill and Sarah Riley -- 'Flying on one wing' / Jean Spence -- Cancer, breast reconstruction and clothes / Anna van Wersch -- Dis/continued selves : why do women keep clothes they no longer wear? / Maura Banim and Ali Guy -- From closet to wardrobe? / Jan Winn and Diane Nutt -- Ontological, epistemological and methodological clarifications in fashion research : from critique to empirical suggestions / Efrat Tseëlon -- Unpicking the seems / Eileen Green, Maura Banim and Ali Guy..
Description / Table of Contents:
Literaturverz. S. 263 - 278
Note:
Includes index
