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9780820461182

Not Just Any Dress : Narratives of Memory, Body, and Identity

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  • ISBN13:

    9780820461182

  • ISBN10:

    0820461180

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2004-06-01
  • Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Inc
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Table of Contents

List of Figures
xi
Acknowledgments xiii
PART I: OUR DRESSES/OUR SELVES
``Dress Stories''
3(8)
Sandra Weber
Claudia Mitchell
That Saturday night all her clothes fell apart and broke into song
11(4)
Lorri Neilson Glenn
PART II: GROWING UP WITH DRESSES
Collecting Loss: Photographs, Dresses, ``Paperies''
15(24)
Carol Mavor
Communion Dress Violations
39(6)
Kathleen O'Reilly Scanlon
``I'll Never Find a Dress'': Shopping for the Prom
45(12)
Catherine Derry
No Red Shoes
57(4)
Sandra Weber
PART III: DRESS AND SCHOOLING
Boxed-in by My School Uniform
61(6)
Sandra Weber
Tunique Desires
67(6)
Lyse Lemieux
In Front of the Closet: (Ad)dressing the Academic
73(10)
Candis Steenbergen
Was It Something I Wore?
83(6)
Claudia Mitchell
My Green Robe: Scholae Personae
89(10)
Madeleine R. Grumet
Curse You Descartes! My Academic Gown
99(6)
Sandra Weber
Basic Black: A Wardrobe Primer for Seasoned Academic Women
105(6)
Lorri Neilson Glenn
PART IV: DRESS RITUALS AND MOTHERS
A Credit to Her Mother
111(16)
Annette Kuhn
Fashioning Pregnancy: The Maternity Dress in Clothing Catalogues
127(10)
Jennifer Musial
The Christmas Doll
137(8)
Ardra L. Cole
Constraining Mother: Corsetry, Control, and Comfort
145(12)
Gary Knowles
(Wo)man Time and M(other) Sins
157(6)
Celeste Snowber
PART V: OF DRESSES AND WEDDINGS
Bridesmaid dress: Thick Description
163(2)
Claudia Mitchell
Try This One On for Size: Poetic Notes from Wedding Dress Research
165(6)
Kathryn Church
Nailing It: My Wedding Dress
171(12)
Jo Visser
PART VI: DRESSING IDENTITY
Made in China
183(8)
Xiao Lan Curdt-Christiansen
Revealing Veiling and Unveiling
191(16)
Roksana Bahramitash
Scarf Signatures
207(4)
Joan Reider
Love Affair with My Isishweshwe
211(8)
Liz Ralfe
Fashion Statement
219(4)
Charlotte Hussey
PART VII: BODIES, DRESS, AND MORTALITY
At the Ugly Ducklings Anonymous Meeting
223(2)
Lorri Neilson Glenn
Writing Bare-breasted
225(4)
Celeste Snowber
Not Just Any Little Black Dress
229(10)
Ilana Abramovitch
Dressing Death: Elsie Never Wore a Prom Dress
239(8)
Claudia Mitchell
Fashion for the Soul
247(4)
Kathy Sands
PART VIII: INTERPRETIVE DRESS
Theorizing Dress Stories
251(22)
Sandra Weber
Claudia Mitchell
References 273(10)
Contributors 283(6)
Name Index 289(4)
Subject Index 293

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