The politics of dress in Asia and the Americas /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Roces, Mina, 1959-, Edwards, Louise P.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Brighton, Eng. ; Portland, Or. : Sussex Academic Press, 2007.
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Table of Contents:
  • Trans-national flows and the politics of dress in Asia and the Americas / Louise Edwards and Mina Roces
  • Gender, nation and the politics of dress in twentieth-century Philippines / Mina Roces
  • Dressing for power : scholars' robes, school uniforms and military attire in China / Louise Edwards
  • Refashioning civilization : dress and bodily practice in Thai nation-building / Maurizio Peleggi
  • Gender, citizenship and dress in modernizing Japan / Barbara Molony
  • Identity, nation and Islam : a dialogue about men's and women's dress in Indonesia / Jean Gelman Taylor
  • "Dressed in a little brief authority" : clothing the body politic in Burma / Penny Edwards
  • Power dressing on the prairies : the grammar of Blackfoot leadership dress 1750-1930 / Blanca Tovias
  • Nationalism and national dress in Spanish America / Rebecca Earle
  • Refashioning the Inca : costume, political power and identity in late Bourbon Peru / David Cahill
  • Wigs, weapons, tattoos and shoes : getting dressed in colonial Amazonia and Brazil / Barbara A. Sommer
  • Fabricating specimen citizens : nation building in nineteenth-century Mexico / Magali M. Carrera
  • Urban expressions of solidarity : fashioning citizenship in Argentina / Regina A. Root.