Research Catalog

Title

Threads of globalization : fashion, textiles, and gender in Asia in the long twentieth century / edited by Melia Belli Bose.

Publication

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2024.

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Additional Authors

Belli Bose, Melia

Description

xix, 314 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm.

Summary

"This richly illustrated, interdisciplinary volume situates fashion, including specific garments, motifs, materials, and methods of production, at the nexus of modernity, tradition, and identity, bringing these factors into Pan-Asian dialogure. exploring the impact of textiles and garments on bothe national and local cultural identity, as well as gender identity and personal expression. Threads of globalization also investigates how garment and textile production has influenced women's creative agency. The final section of the book examines examples of artivism that critique the often-gendered structural violence and environmental impacts of the global fashion industry."-- Cover page 4.

Series Statement

Studies in design and material culture

Uniform Title

Studies in design and material culture.

Subject

• Fashion > Asia > 20th century
• Textile fabrics > Asia > 20th century
• Clothing trade > Asia > 20th century
• Fashion and globalization > Social aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Front Matter -- Contents -- Introduction: stitching together gender, textile and garment labor, and heritage in Asia -- Part I Fashioning identity: textiles, garments, and belonging -- Wearing a gendered tree: a new style of garments from early modern to twentieth-century China -- Women for cotton and men for wool: consuming gendered textiles in colonized Korea -- Gendered blue: women's jeans in postwar Taiwan -- Bhutanese women and the performance of globalization -- Weaving and dyeing the ideal of reproduction among Shidong Miao in Guizhou province
• Part II Gendering creative agency: women fashion designers, textile makers, and entrepreneurs -- Soft power: Guo Pei and the fashioning of matriarchy -- Investigating female entrepreneurship in silk weaving in contemporary Cambodia -- (Re)crafting distribution networks for contemporary Philippine textiles: women's advocacy and social enterprise -- Women weaving silken identities and revitalizing various Japanese textile traditions -- Part III Creative voices for change: textiles, gender, and artivism --
• Entangled histories of craft and conflict: the story of phulkari textiles in The Singh Twins's Slaves of Fashion -- The politics of wastefulness and 'the poetics of waste': Ruby Chishti's sartorial interventions -- Made in Rana Plaza: Dilara Begum Jolly's garment factory-themed art -- Index

Call Number

JQE 24-498

ISBN

• 1526163403
• 9781526163400

OCLC

1385398508

Title

Threads of globalization : fashion, textiles, and gender in Asia in the long twentieth century / edited by Melia Belli Bose.

Publisher

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2024.

Type of Content

text

still image

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Studies in design and material culture

Studies in design and material culture.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Belli Bose, Melia, editor.

Other Form:

Electronic version: Threads of globalization. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2024 9781526163417 (OCoLC)1419644511

Research Call Number

JQE 24-498