Not Just Any Dress: Narratives of Memory, Body, and Identity book by Sandra Weber, Claudia Mitchell

Sandra Weber, Claudia Mitchell

ISBN 10: 0820461180 / ISBN 13: 9780820461182

Verlag: Peter Lang Inc, 2004

Beschreibung

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book. About the book >.>.> Dresses! We love them, we hate them, we gawk at them, we cover them, we long for them, we disdain them, we buy them, we make them, we wash them, we iron them, we wear them, we refuse to wear them, we work in them, we dance in them, we stain them, we tear them, we mend them, we remodel them, we ridicule them, we take them for granted, we grow out of them, we curse at them, we give them away, we forget them, we remember them with shame or longing, we store them away lovingly, we toss them crumpled on the floor, we hang on to them for ages even when they no longer fit, we hand them down, and sometimes, we even burn hem. If dresses could talk, what stories might they tell? Ask women to talk or write about dresses, and without much prompting, they will gale you with detailed snippets from their lives, anecdotes that start out ostensibly (LL).

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Not Just Any Dress: Narratives of Memory, Body, and Identity book by Sandra Weber, Claudia Mitchell
• Verlag: Peter Lang Inc
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0820461180
• ISBN-13: 9780820461182
• Einband: Softcover
• Zustand: Very Good
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • Psychology

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Inhaltsangabe

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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

The Editors: Sandra Weber is Professor of Education and a Fellow at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute at Concordia University, Montreal. Claudia Mitchell is a Professor and Chair in the School of Education at the University of Natal, South Africa. Her most recent book, Researching Children’s Popular Culture: The Cultural Spaces of Childhood (with Jacqueline Reid-Walsh) was published in 2002. Together, Weber and Mitchell have co-authored That’s Funny, You Don’t Look Like a Teacher: Interrogating Images of Identity in Popular Culture (1995) and Reinventing Ourselves as Teachers: Beyond Nostalgia (1999). Co-founders of the Image and Identity Research Collective, they have also co-produced two documentaries on prom dressing, girlhood, and youth culture: Canadian Pie (2002), and Dress Fitting (2000).