The Culture of Sewing
The Culture of Sewing

Author: Barbara Burman

Publisher:

Published: 1999-11

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13:

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Throughout its long history, homedressmaking has been a formative experience in the lives of millions of women. This volume is an account of the significance of homedressmaking as a form of American and European material culture.

The Book of New Zealand Women
The Book of New Zealand Women

Author: Charlotte Macdonald

Publisher: Bridget Williams Books

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 800

ISBN-13:

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Biographical essays on some three hundred prominent women of New Zealand.

Fashion Theory
Fashion Theory

Author: Valerie Steele

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Published: 2012-05-08

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9780857852519

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Fashion Theory takes as its starting point a definition of 'fashion' as the cultural construction of the embodied identity. It provides an international and interdisciplinary forum for the analysis of cultural phenomena ranging from foot binding to fashion advertising. All articles have solid theoretical underpinnings and are based on original research. Fashion Theory is covered by the following abstracting/indexing services: Abstracts in Anthropology; AOI Anthropological Index Online; ARTbibliographies Modern; British Humanities Index; DAAI Design and Applied Arts Index; IBR International Bibliography of Book Reviews of Scholarly Literature in the Humanities and Social Sciences; IBSS International Bibliography of the Social Sciences; IBZ International Bibliography of Periodical Literature on the Humanities and Social Sciences; ISI Arts and Humanities Citation Index; Scopus; Sociological Abstracts

The Rose Without a Thorn
The Rose Without a Thorn

Author: Clifford Bax

Publisher: Wilson Press

Published: 2008-05

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13: 9781409726913

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.