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Textiles and Gender in Antiquity - From the Orient to the Mediterranean (Paperback)
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Textiles and Gender in Antiquity - From the Orient to the Mediterranean (Paperback)
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This volume looks at how the issues of textiles and gender
intertwine across three millennia in antiquity and examines
continuities and differences across time and space - with
surprising resonances for the modern world. The interplay of
gender, identity, textile production and use is notable on many
levels, from the question of who was involved in the transformation
of raw materials into fabric at one end, to the wearing of garments
and the construction of identity at the other. Textile production
has often been considered to follow a linear trajectory from a
domestic (female) activity to a more 'commercial' or 'industrial'
(male-centred) mode of production. In reality, many modes of
production co-existed and the making of textiles is not so easily
grafted onto the labour of one sex or the other. Similarly,
textiles once transformed into garments are often of 'unisex' shape
but worn to express the gender of the wearer. As shown by the
detailed textual source material and the rich illustrations in this
volume, dress and gender are intimately linked in the visual and
written records of antiquity. The contributors show how it is
common practice in both art and literature not only to use
particular garments to characterize one sex or the other, but also
to undermine characterizations by suggesting that they display
features usually associated with the opposite gender.
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