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Was it something I wore? : dress, identity, materiality

Summary: People often wear their causes on their t-shirts, in their choice of traditional attire or other garments, or by way of specific costumes, pieces of jewellery or particular accessories. In Was it something I wore? Dress; Identity; materiality, the contributors explore the ... construction and performance of personal and social identities. The essays point to the significance of dress as material culture in social science research not only in their content but also in their focus on a variety of methodologies including memory work, visual studies, autoethnography, object biographies and other forms of textual analysis. The framing question, Was it something I wore? is central to the many dress questions the book raises; questions that challenge the socio-political status quo. To what extent does dress visually signify the construction of a chosen identity and a chosen performance? How does dress position the body and identity in different social and cultural spaces? How does dress signify oppression and/or liberation for women and might this differ for men? What is the role of dress in the constructions of schooling and contemporary childhood? In its exploration of these and other questions, Was it something I wore? addresses a variety of pertinent social issues that confront communities in southern Africa   Vis mere Vis mindre

Identity; Clothing; Social aspects; Cultural identity; Gender roles; South Africa
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Summary: People often wear their causes on their t-shirts, in their choice of traditional attire or other garments, or by way of specific costumes, pieces of jewellery or particular accessories. In Was it something I wore? Dress; Identity; materiality, the contributors explore the ... construction and performance of personal and social identities. The essays point to the significance of dress as material culture in social science research not only in their content but also in their focus on a variety of methodologies including memory work, visual studies, autoethnography, object biographies and other forms of textual analysis. The framing question, Was it something I wore? is central to the many dress questions the book raises; questions that challenge the socio-political status quo. To what extent does dress visually signify the construction of a chosen identity and a chosen performance? How does dress position the body and identity in different social and cultural spaces? How does dress signify oppression and/or liberation for women and might this differ for men? What is the role of dress in the constructions of schooling and contemporary childhood? In its exploration of these and other questions, Was it something I wore? addresses a variety of pertinent social issues that confront communities in southern Africa   Vis mere Vis mindre
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Titel
Was it something I wore? : dress, identity, materiality
Bidrag
edited by Relebohile Moletsane, Claudia Mitchell, Ann Smith
Sprog
Engelsk
Udgiver
HSRC Press
Udgivelsesår
2012
Omfang
x, 372 s., illustrations, 24 cm
Referencer
Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN
9780796923622, 0796923620
Indhold
Reconfiguring dress / Claudia Mitchell, Relebohile Moletsane and Kathleen Pithouse -- 'White' women in 'black' clothing : overtures towards Africanness in dress in a South African context / Juliette Leeb-du Toit -- Stories fluttering in the wind : how clotheslines ... write our lives / Hourig Attarian -- Take a picture : photographs, dress, gender and self-study / Ann Smith -- Aesthetics and identity in contemporary South African fashion / Desiree Lewis -- Gender and the politics of the Basotho blanket / Mathabo Khau -- Ayashisa 'mateki : Converse All Stars and the making of African masculinities / Kopano Ratele -- Do clothes make a (wo)man? Exploring the role of dress in shaping South African domestic workers' identities / Sithabile Ntombela -- A loud silence : the history of funeral dress among the Ndau of Zimbabwe / Marshall Tamuka Maposa -- Dressing sex/wearing a condom : exploring social constructions of sexuality through a social semiotic analysis of the condom / Ran Tao and Claudia Mitchell -- Who wears the trousers here? Women teachers and the politics of gender and the dress code in South African schools / Pontso Moorosi -- Was it something she wore? Gender-based violence and the policing of the place of girls in the school space / Naydene de Lange -- The gender politics of the school uniform / Nolutho Diko -- The perfect matric dance dress / Linda van Laren -- Angeke ngibe isitabane : the perceived relationship between dress and sexuality among young African men at the University of KwaZulu-Natal / Thabo Msibi -- Khangela amankengane : the role of dress amongst rural extension workers in KwaZulu-Natal / Bongiwe Mkhize -- Wearing our hearts on our sleeves : the T-shirt and the South African activist agenda / Relebohile Moletsane and Peliwe Lolwana -- The art of representation versus dressing to be invisible : who am I dressing for in contemporary Rwanda? / Éliane Ubalijoro -- Rewriting the script : drag, dress and the body politic / Crawl Evans and Robert J. Balfour -- Sari stories : fragmentary images of 'Indian woman' / Nyna Amin and Devarakshanam (Betty) Govinden -- Personal adornment and creative process as micro-resistance / Marlene de Beer   Vis mere Vis mindre
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