Changing Fashion
A Critical Introduction to Trend Analysis and
Cultural Meaning
August 2007
192pp
Bibliog, index
Annette Lynch and Mitchell Strauss
Reviews 'This book is a refreshing examination of
fashion that explores contemporary meanings and
motivations for change. The organization is
comprehensive and centered on cultural and
global trends affecting us all. The authors
provide useful summaries within each chapter and
case examples that play upon their unique
strengths to offer a stimulating and synergistic
look at factors that influence fashion change.'
Marilyn DeLong, University of Minnesota
Dress Sense
Emotional and Sensory Experiences of the Body
and Clothes
November 2007
256pp
bibliog, index, 40 bw illus
Donald Clay Johnson and Helen Bradley Foster
Book Description
Dress Sense explores the importance of the
senses and emotions in the way people dress, and
how they attach value and significance to
clothing. Inspired by the work of Joanne B.
Eicher, contributors offer different
multi-disciplinary perspectives on this key and
unexplored topic in dress and sensory
anthropology.
The essays present historical, contemporary
and global views, from British imperial dress in
India, to revolutionary Socialist dress. Issues
of body and identity are brought to the fore in
the sexual power of Ghanian women's waistbeads,
the way cross-dressers feel about their
clothing, and how the latest 3D body scanning
technology affects people's perception of
themselves and their bodies.
For students and researchers of dress and
anthropology, Dress Sense will be invaluable in
understanding the cross-cultural, emotional and
sensual experience of dress and clothing.
About the author(s)
Helen Bradley Foster is Lecturer, University of
Minnesota.
Donald Clay Johnson is Curator, Ames Library of
South Asia, University of Minnesota.
Contents
Introduction, Helen Bradley Foster and Donald
Clay Johnson
Part I. Historical Perspectives
1. Sight, Sound, and Sentiment in Greek Village
Dress, Linda Welters
2. More than Costume History: Dress in Somali
Culture, Heather Marie Akou
3. Dress, Hungarian Socialism, and Resistance,
Katalin Medvedev
4. Clothes Make the Empire: British Dress in
India, Donald Clay Johnson
5. African American Enslavement and Escaping in
Disguise, Helen Bradley Foster
Part II. Living Traditions
6. Indian Madras Plaids as Real India, Sandra
Evenson
7. The Role of Scents and the Body in Turkey,
Marlene Breu
8. Awakening the Senses: the Aesthetics of
Moroccan Berber Dress, Cynthia Becker
9. The Power of Touch: Women's Waistbeads in
Ghana, Suzanne Gott
10. Performing Dress and Adornment in
Southeastern Nigeria, Sarah Adams
Part III. Challenging Traditions
11. Women, Migration, and the Experience of
Dress, Mary A. Littrell and Jennifer Paff Ogle
12. Handmade Textiles: Manufacturing African
Authenticity, Victoria L. Rovine
13. Growing Old and Dressing (Dis)Gracefully,
Annette Lynch, M. Elise Radina and Marybeth C.
Stalp
Part IV. The Future
14. Embodying the Feminine: Male-to-Female
cross-Dressing, Jane E. Hegland and Nancy Nelson
Hodges
15. Virtual Sensation: Dress Online, Suzanne
Loker and Susan P. Ashdown
Dress, Gender and
Cultural Change:Asian-American
and African-American Rites of Passage, published
1999 by Berg Publishers.
From
the back cover:
While African American dress has
long been noted as having a distinctive edge, many people may
not know that debutante balls — a relatively recent phenomenon
within African American communities — feature young women and
men dressed, respectively, in conventional symbols of female
purity and male hegemony, and conforming to gender stereotypes
that have tended to characterize such events traditionally.
Within the Hmong American community, mothers and aunts of
teenagers use bangles, lace, and traditional handwork techniques
to create dazzling displays reflecting the gender and ethnicity
of their sons and daughters, nieces and nephews, as they
participate in an annual courtship ritual.
This book
examines these events to show how dress is used to transform
gender construction and create positive images of African
American and Hmong American youth.
Coming-of-age
rituals serve as arenas of cultural revision and change. For
each of these communities, the choice of dress represents
cultural affirmation. This author shows that within the
homogenizing context of American society, dress serves as a site
for the continual renegotiation of identity — gendered, ethnic,
and otherwise.
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Editorial Reviews
Description
Sexual violence on college campuses is well documented.
Prevention education has emerged as an alternative to victimand
perpetrator-oriented approaches used in the past. One sexual
violence prevention education approach focuses on educating and
empowering the bystander to become a point of ethical
intervention. In this model, bystanders to sexual violence
become active agents working to move their communities toward
ethical and respectful versions of sexual behavior. The purpose
of this research was to develop and evaluate two bystander
intervention models. Results indicate the efficacy of the
bystander approach as a prevention strategy. [PUBLICATION
ABSTRACT]
This digital document is an article from Journal of Family and
Consumer Sciences, most recently published by ProQuest
Information and Learning on September 30, 2005. The length of
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Citation Details Title: Bystander Approaches: Empowering
Students to Model Ethical Sexual Behavior Author: Wm Michael Fleming Publication:Journal of Family and Consumer
Sciences (Feature) Date: September 30, 2005 Publisher: ProQuest Information and Learning Volume: 97 Issue: 3
Page: 27-33
Editorial Reviews
Description
The Textile and Apparel Program at the University of Northern
Iowa has aggressively pursued external funding to increase
exposure of a primarily female student population to higher
levels of science and technology to increase their ability to
enter professional positions and graduate programs requiring
technical and scientific backgrounds. Using surveys and
qualitative data, the study evaluated the impact of curriculum
changes and exposure to textile testing equipment. [PUBLICATION
ABSTRACT]
This digital document is an article from Journal of Family and
Consumer Sciences, most recently published by American
Association of Family & Consumer Sciences on November 30, 2003.
The length of the article is 3033 words. The page length shown
above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is
delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com
Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with
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Citation Details Title: Breaking the Gender Barrier: Infusion of
Technology into a Textile and Apparel Curriculum Author: Mitchell D Strauss Publication:Journal of Family and Consumer
Sciences (Feature) Date: November 30, 2003 Publisher: American Association of Family &
Consumer Sciences Volume: 95 Issue: 4
Page: 28-33
