| Contents |
Sight, sound, and sentiment in Greek village dress / Linda Welters -- More than costume history : dress in Somali culture / Heather Marie Akou -- Dress, Hungarian socialism, and resistance / Katalin Medvedev -- Clothes make the empire : British dress in India / Donald Clay Johnson -- African American enslavement and escaping in disguise / Helen Bradley Foster -- Role of scents and the body in Turkey / Marlene R. Breu -- Awakening the senses : the aesthetics of Moroccan Berber dress / Cynthia Becker -- Power of touch : women's waist beads in Ghana / Suzanne Gott -- Indian Madras plaids as real India / Sandra Lee Evenson -- Performing dress and adornment in Southeastern Nigeria / Sarah Adams -- Women, migration, and the experience of dress / Mary A. Littrell and Jennifer Paff Ogle -- Handmade, textiles : global markets and authenticity / Victoria L. Rovine -- Growing old and dressing (Dis) gracefully / Annette Lynch, M. Elise Radina, and Marybeth C. Stalp -- Embodying the feminine : male-to-female cross-dressing / Jane E. Hegland and Nancy Nelson Hodges -- Virtual sensation : dress online / Suzanne Loker and Susan P. Ashdown. |
| Review |
"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 waist-beads, the way cross-dressers feel about their clothing, and how the latest three-dimensional body-scanning technology affects people's perception of themselves and their bodies."--Jacket. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Dress sense. English ed. New York : Berg, 2007 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2007033131 |
| ISBN | 9781845206925 (cloth) |
| ISBN | 1845206924 (cloth) |
| ISBN | 9781845206932 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 1845206932 (pbk.) |
