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    • Title:Dressing global bodies : the political power of dress in world history / edited by Beverly Lemire and Giorgio Riello.
    • ISBN:9781138493179
      1138493171
      9781138493186
      113849318X
      9781351028745
    • Publication:Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
    • Physical Description:xiv, 317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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    • Summary:"Dressing Global Bodies addresses the complex politics of dress and fashion from a global perspective spanning four centuries, tying the early global to more contemporary times, to reveal clothing practice as a key cultural phenomenon and mechanism of defining one's identity. This collection of essays explores how garments reflect the hierarchies of value, collective and personal inclinations, religious norms and conversions. Apparel is now recognized for its seminal role in global, colonial and post-colonial engagements and for its role in personal and collective expression. Patterns of exchange and commerce are discussed by contributing authors to analyse powerful and diverse colonial and postcolonial practices. This volume rejects assumptions surrounding a purportedly all-powerful western metropolitan fashion system and instead aims to emphasise how diverse populations seized agency through the fashioning of dress. Dressing Global Bodies contributes to a growing scholarship considering gender and race, place and politics through the close critical analysis of dress and fashion; it is an indispensable volume for students of history and especially those interested in fashion, textiles, material culture and the body across a wide time frame"--
    • Variant and related titles:Political power of dress in world history
    • Format:Book
    • BibliographyIncludes bibliographical references and index.
    • Subjects:Clothing and dress--Political aspects.
      Fashion--Political aspects.
      Clothing and dress--History.
      Fashion--History.
      Clothing and dress.
      Fashion.
      Fashion--Political aspects.
    • Also listed under:Lemire, Beverly, 1950- editor.
      Riello, Giorgio, editor.
    Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/14881637