Politics of Dress in Asia and the Americas (The Liverpool Library of Asian & Asian American Studies) - Tapa blanda

Roces, Mina

 
9781845193997: Politics of Dress in Asia and the Americas (The Liverpool Library of Asian & Asian American Studies)
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ISBN 10: 1845193997 ISBN 13: 9781845193997
Editorial: Liverpool University Press, 2010

Sinopsis

This book explores the ways in which dress has been influential in the political agendas and self-representations of politicians in a variety of regimes from democratic to authoritarian. Arguing that dress is part of 'hard core' politics, it shows how dress has been crucial to the constructions of nationhood and national identities in both Asia and the Americas. Since dress has been a marker of identity and status, chapters engage with the gendering of the politics of dress, discussing how women have become bearers and wearers of 'national tradition' and how men and women's dress reflect their political positions in the nation-state. It examines the magical power of cloth, the meanings of batik and design, the holy status of uncut cloth versus cut cloth, and the quaint combination of non-Western with Western attire. This collection of pioneering essays fills a vacuum in the largely Eurocentric field of dress studies, demanding that attention be paid to Asia and the Americas as major sites of vestimentary creativity.

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Mina Roces teaches in the School of History, at the University of New South Wales, in Sydney, Australia. She is author of Women, Power and Kinship Politics: Female Power in Post-War Philippines. Louise Edwards is Professor of China Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney. She has published widely in the field of women in China. Together with Mina Roces, she has previously edited two influential books on women in Asia.

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Editorial
Liverpool University Press
Año de publicación
2010
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1845193997
ISBN 13 
9781845193997
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
276
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