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Title Dressed to impress : looking the part / edited by William J. F. Keenan ; foreword by David Martin.

Imprint

Oxford, [England] ; New York, N.Y. : Berg, 2001.

Copies

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe 3rd Floor Stacks	391.0019 D817 2001	---	Available

Description	xv, 236 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Series	Dress, body, culture
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents	Sartor Resartus restored : dress studies in Carlylean perspective / William J. F. Keenan -- Comparative exploration of dress and the presentation of self as implicit religion / Eileen Barker -- "Informalizing spurt" in clothing regimes : court ballet in the civilizing process / Norman R. Gabriel -- Land of hip and glory : fashioning the "classic" national body / Alison Goodrum -- Multiple meanings of the Hijab in contemporary France / Malcolm D. Brown -- Gestus manifests Habitus : dress and the Mormon / Douglas R. Davies -- Vampires and goths : fandom, gender and cult dress / Milly Williamson -- Fall and rise of erotic lingerie / Dana Wilson-Kovacs -- Dress freedom : the personal and the political / William J. F. Keenan.
Subject	Clothing and dress -- Social aspects.
	Clothing and dress -- Social aspects.
	Identity (Psychology)
Added Author	Keenan, William J. F.
ISBN	1859734553
	185973460X (pbk.) : L.14.99