Not Just Any Dress -

Not Just Any Dress

Narratives of Memory, Body, and Identity
Buch | Softcover
298 Seiten
2004
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8204-6118-2 (ISBN)
40,50 inkl. MwSt
If dresses could talk, what stories might they tell? This compelling collection of short stories, essays, and poems features dress as the structural grounding for autobiographical accounts from women’s lives in Western society. Often personal in nature, these «dress stories» point unfailingly to matters of social and cultural import. Some of the dresses described inhabit the popular imagination: the little girl dress, the communion dress, the school uniform, the prom dress, the wedding dress, the little black dress, and the burial dress. Beyond the semiotic, tactile, and visual aspects of the dresses themselves, the narratives delve into what dresses reveal about fundamental aspects of human experience: identity, embodiment, relationship, and mortality. Bought or made, then worn, forgotten, remembered, re-constructed, and re-interpreted, each dress offers a new glimpse into how we construct meaning in our daily lives, and how dresses serve to reinforce or resist social structures and cultural expectations.

Contents: Sandra Weber/Claudia Mitchell: «Dress Stories» – Lorri Neilson Glenn: That Saturday night all her clothes fell apart and broke into song – Carol Mavor: Collecting Loss: Photographs, Dresses, «Paperies» – Kathleen O’Reilly Scanlon: Communion Dress Violations – Catherine Derry: «I’ll Never Find a Dress»: Shopping for the Prom – Sandra Weber: No Red Shoes – Sandra Weber: Boxed-in by My School Uniform – Lyse Lemieux: Tunique Desires – Candis Steenbergen: In Front of the Closet: (Ad)dressing the Academic – Claudia Mitchell: Was It Something I Wore? – Madeleine R. Grumet: My Green Robe: Scholae Personae – Sandra Weber: Curse You Descartes! My Academic Gown – Lorri Neilson Glenn: Basic Black: A Wardrobe Primer for Seasoned Academic Women – Annette Kuhn: A Credit to Her Mother – Jennifer Musial: Fashioning Pregnancy: The Maternity Dress in Clothing Catalogues – Ardra L. Cole: The Christmas Doll – Gary Knowles: Constraining Mother: Corsetry, Control, and Comfort – Celeste Snowber: (Wo)man Time and M(other) Sins – Claudia Mitchell: Bridesmaid dress: Thick Description – Kathryn Church: Try This One On for Size: Poetic Notes from Wedding Dress Research – Jo Visser: Nailing It: My Wedding Dress – Xiao Lan Curdt-Christiansen: Made in China – Roksana Bahramitash: Revealing Veiling and Unveiling – Joan Reider: Scarf Signatures – Liz Ralfe: Love Affair with My Isishweshwe – Charlotte Hussey: Fashion Statement – Lorri Neilson Glenn: At the Ugly Ducklings Anonymous Meeting – Celeste Snowber: Writing Bare-breasted – Ilana Abramovitch: Not Just Any Little Black Dress – Claudia Mitchell: Dressing Death: Elsie Never Wore a Prom Dress – Kathy Sands: Fashion for the Soul – Sandra Weber/Claudia Mitchell: Theorizing Dress Stories.

Reihe/Serie Counterpoints ; 220
Counterpoints ; 220
Counterpoints: Studies in the Postmodern Theory of Education ; 220
Zusatzinfo 31 fig.
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 160 x 230 mm
Gewicht 430 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie Schönheit / Kosmetik
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie Volkskunde
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Allgemeines / Lexika
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 0-8204-6118-0 / 0820461180
ISBN-13 978-0-8204-6118-2 / 9780820461182
Zustand Neuware
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