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Material strategies : dress and gender in historical perspective
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Material strategies : dress and gender in historical perspective

Author: Barbara Burman; Carole Turbin
Publisher: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2003.
Series: Gender & history (Unnumbered)
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Barbara Burman; Carole Turbin
ISBN: 1405109068 9781405109062
OCLC Number: 53069644
Notes: "A Gender and History special issue."
Description: viii, 265 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Material strategies engendered -- Fashion, time and the consumption of a Renaissance man in Germany: the costume book of Matthaus Schwarz of Augsburg, 1496-1564 -- Reflections on gender and status distinctions: an analysis of the liturgical textiles recorded in mid-sixteenth-century London -- Following suit: men, masculinity and gendered practices in the clothing trade in Leeds, England, 1890-1940 -- Pocketing the difference: gender and pockets in nineteenth-century Britain -- Fashioning the American man: the Arrow collar man, 1907-1931 -- Erotic modesty: (ad)dressing female sexuality and propriety in open and closed drawers, USA, 1800-1930 -- 'De-humanised females and Amazonians': British wartime fashion and its representation in Home chat, 1914-1918 -- Fashion, the politics of style and national identity in pre-Fascist and Fascist Italy -- Style and subversion: postwar poses and the neo-Edwardian suit in mid-twentieth-century Britain -- 'Anti-mini militants meet modern misses': urban style, gender and the politics of 'national culture' in 1960s Dar es Salaam, Tanzania -- Dressing for leadership in China: wives and husbands in an age of revolutions (1911-1976).
Series Title: Gender & history (Unnumbered)
Responsibility: edited by Barbara Burman and Carole Turbin.

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