Not Just Any Dress : Narratives of Memory, Body, and Identity

, by Weber, Sandra; Mitchell, Claudia

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ISBN: 9780820461182 | 0820461180
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 6/1/2004

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List of Figures

Acknowledgments

xiii

PART I: OUR DRESSES/OUR SELVES

``Dress Stories''

(8)

Sandra Weber

Claudia Mitchell

That Saturday night all her clothes fell apart and broke into song

(4)

Lorri Neilson Glenn

PART II: GROWING UP WITH DRESSES

Collecting Loss: Photographs, Dresses, ``Paperies''

(24)

Carol Mavor

Communion Dress Violations

(6)

Kathleen O'Reilly Scanlon

``I'll Never Find a Dress'': Shopping for the Prom

(12)

Catherine Derry

No Red Shoes

(4)

Sandra Weber

PART III: DRESS AND SCHOOLING

Boxed-in by My School Uniform

(6)

Sandra Weber

Tunique Desires

(6)

Lyse Lemieux

In Front of the Closet: (Ad)dressing the Academic

(10)

Candis Steenbergen

Was It Something I Wore?

(6)

Claudia Mitchell

My Green Robe: Scholae Personae

(10)

Madeleine R. Grumet

Curse You Descartes! My Academic Gown

(6)

Sandra Weber

Basic Black: A Wardrobe Primer for Seasoned Academic Women

105

(6)

Lorri Neilson Glenn

PART IV: DRESS RITUALS AND MOTHERS

A Credit to Her Mother

111

(16)

Annette Kuhn

Fashioning Pregnancy: The Maternity Dress in Clothing Catalogues

127

(10)

Jennifer Musial

The Christmas Doll

137

(8)

Ardra L. Cole

Constraining Mother: Corsetry, Control, and Comfort

145

(12)

Gary Knowles

(Wo)man Time and M(other) Sins

157

(6)

Celeste Snowber

PART V: OF DRESSES AND WEDDINGS

Bridesmaid dress: Thick Description

163

(2)

Claudia Mitchell

Try This One On for Size: Poetic Notes from Wedding Dress Research

165

(6)

Kathryn Church

Nailing It: My Wedding Dress

171

(12)

Jo Visser

PART VI: DRESSING IDENTITY

Made in China

183

(8)

Xiao Lan Curdt-Christiansen

Revealing Veiling and Unveiling

191

(16)

Roksana Bahramitash

Scarf Signatures

207

(4)

Joan Reider

Love Affair with My Isishweshwe

211

(8)

Liz Ralfe

Fashion Statement

219

(4)

Charlotte Hussey

PART VII: BODIES, DRESS, AND MORTALITY

At the Ugly Ducklings Anonymous Meeting

223

(2)

Lorri Neilson Glenn

Writing Bare-breasted

225

(4)

Celeste Snowber

Not Just Any Little Black Dress

229

(10)

Ilana Abramovitch

Dressing Death: Elsie Never Wore a Prom Dress

239

(8)

Claudia Mitchell

Fashion for the Soul

247

(4)

Kathy Sands

PART VIII: INTERPRETIVE DRESS

Theorizing Dress Stories

251

(22)

Sandra Weber

Claudia Mitchell

References

273

(10)

Contributors

283

(6)

Name Index

289

(4)

Subject Index

293

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