Not Just Any Dress - Narratives of Memory, Body, and Identity (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Peter Lang Publishing
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Counterpoints, 220
Release date:	June 2004
Editors:	Sandra Weber • Claudia Mitchell
Dimensions:	226 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	298
ISBN-13:	978-0-8204-6118-2
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > Popular culture Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General
LSN:	0-8204-6118-0
Barcode:	9780820461182

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