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Dress and gender : making and meaning in cultural contexts

viii, 293 p. : 23 cm Essays based on papers presented at a workshop held in April 1989 in Oxford -- Pref Includes bibliographical references and index Preface / Ruth Barnes and Joanne B. Eicher -- Introduction / Ruth Barnes and Joanne B. Eicher -- 1. Definition and Classification of Dress: Implications for Analysis of Gender Roles / Joanne B. Eicher and Mary Ellen Roach-Higgins -- 2. Women as Headhunters: The Making and Meaning of Textiles in a Southeast Asian Context / Ruth Barnes -- 3. Cut and Sewn: The Textiles of Social Organization in Thailand / H. Leedom Lefferts, Jr. -- 4. Purse-Proud: …