Dress and Gender Making and Meaning [Paperback]

Dress is one of the most significant markers of gender identity, yet is only rarely explored in depth. This volume addresses the relationship between gender and dress, opening up fascinating aspects by covering a great variety of ethnographic areas reaching from Asia, Europe and Africa to North and South America. The time span is equally wide-ranging and offers present-day material as well as studies based on historical data.

...this important, thought-provoking work, breaks new ground and could conceivably spawn future Women's Studies research in many lands and languages. Dress

...a rich and diverse collection of essays, with a wide ethnographic and historical range that makes it a valuable and useful book for those interested in either dress or gender, and indispensable for those interested in both. Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford

This excellent volume should serve as a useful resource. Choice

... an extremely rich analysis of dress as a form of gender identification. ITAA Newsletter

Ruth Barnes Ashmolean Museum,Oxford Joanne B. Eicher Regents' Professor, Department of Design, Housing and Apparel, University of MinnesotaIntroduction--R. Barnes & J. Eicher * Dress and Gender: Definition and Classification of Dress: Implications for Analysis of Gender Roles--J. Eicher & N.E. Roach-Higgins * Women as Headhunters: The Making and Meaning of Textiles in a Southeast Asian Context--R. Barnes * Cut and Sewn: The Textiles of Social Organisation in Thailand--L. Lefferts * Purse-Proud: Of Betel and Areca Nut Bags in Laboya (West Sumba, Eastern Indonesia)--D. Geirnaert * Gender Boundaries in the Production of Guatamalan Textiles--C. Pancake * The Jewish Kippa Sruga and the Social Construction of Gender in Israel--S. Baizerman * Quilted Apparel and Gender Identity: An American Case Study--C. Cerny * Lace Making in Venetian Culture--L. Sciama * Pachamama: The Inka Earth Mother of the Long Sl,