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Through the wardrobe : women's relationships with their clothes

Author: Ali Guy; Maura Banim; Eileen Green
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2001.
Series: Dress, body, culture.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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This text sets out to fill a gap in the existing literature on the ambivalence of fashion and dress by drawing on a wide range of women's experiences with their wardrobes, and providing empirical data.
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Through the wardrobe.
Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2001
(OCoLC)606533905
Online version:
Through the wardrobe.
Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2001
(OCoLC)607783030
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Ali Guy; Maura Banim; Eileen Green
ISBN: 1859733832 9781859733837 1859733883 9781859733882
OCLC Number: 45735754
Description: xiv, 286 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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.
Series Title: Dress, body, culture.
Responsibility: edited by Ali Guy, Eileen Green and Maura Banim.
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This text sets out to fill a gap in the existing literature on the ambivalence of fashion and dress by drawing on a wide range of women's experiences with their wardrobes, and providing empirical data.

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