Through the wardrobe women's relationships with their clothes / edited by Ali Guy, Eileen Green and Maura Banim.
| Other author | Guy, Ali. |
| Other author | Banim, Maura. |
| Other author | Green, Eileen, 1947- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Oxford ; New York : Berg, |
| Description | xiv, 286 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Series | Dress, body, culture, 1360-466X |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-278) and indexes. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2010444560 |
| ISBN | 1859733832 |
| ISBN | 9781859733837 |
| ISBN | 1859733883 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 9781859733882 (pbk.) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |