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 InfoOxford ; New York : Berg,
Descriptionxiv, 286 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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SeriesDress, 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 263-278) and indexes.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2010444560
ISBN1859733832
ISBN9781859733837
ISBN1859733883 (pbk.)
ISBN9781859733882 (pbk.)

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