TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sandra Weber
AU  - Claudia Mitchell
PY  - 2004
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1058-1634
TI  - Not Just Any Dress
T2  - Narratives of Memory, Body, and Identity
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1098473
N2  - 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.
KW  - Frauenkleidung, Aufsatzsammlung, Women's clothing, Clothing /dress, Body, Human, Social aspects, Symbolic aspects, Soziale Identität, Psychological aspects
LA  - English
ER  -