Belli Bose Threads of globalization

Fashion, textiles, and gender in Asia in the long twentieth century
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6341-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in Design and Material Culture

Threads of globalization is an interdisciplinary volume that brings fashion-specific garments, motifs, materials, and methods of production—into dialogue with gender and identity in various cultures throughout Asia during the long twentieth century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Belli Bose, Melia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Wirtschaftliche Globalisierung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Fertigungsindustrie Textilindustrie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: stitching together gender, textile and garment labor, and heritage in Asia – Melia Belli Bose
Part I: Fashioning identity: textiles, garments, and belonging
1 Wearing a gendered tree: a new style of garments from early modern to twentieth-century China – Yuhang Li
2 Women for cotton and men for wool: consuming gendered textiles in colonized Korea – Kyunghee Pyun
3 Gendered blue: women’s jeans in postwar Taiwan – Ying-chen Peng
4 Bhutanese women and the performance of globalization – Emma Dick
5 Weaving and dyeing the ideal of reproduction among Shidong Miao in Guizhou province – Ho Zhao-hua
Part II: Gendering creative agency: women fashion designers, textile makers, and entrepreneurs
6 Soft power: Guo Pei and the fashioning of matriarchy – Kristen Loring Brennan
7 Investigating female entrepreneurship in silk weaving in contemporary Cambodia – Magali An Berthon
8 (Re)crafting distribution networks for contemporary Philippine textiles: women’s advocacy and social enterprise – B. Lynne Milgram
9 Women weaving silken identities and revitalizing various Japanese textile traditions – Millie Creighton
Part III: Creative voices for change: textiles, gender, and artivism
10 Entangled histories of craft and conflict: the story of phulkari textiles in The Singh Twins’s Slaves of Fashion – Cristin McKnight Sethi
11 The politics of wastefulness and ‘the poetics of waste’: Ruby Chishti’s sartorial interventions – Saleema Waraich
12 Made in Rana Plaza: Dilara Begum Jolly’s garment factory-themed art – Melia Belli Bose
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Melia Belli Bose is an Associate Professor of South Asian Art History at the University of Victoria