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"This collection of short stories, essays, and poems features dress as the structural grounding for autobiographical accounts of women's lives in Western society. Often personal in nature, these "dress stories: point unfailingly to matters of social and cultural import. Some of the dresses described inhabit the popular imagination: the little girl dress, the communion dress, the school uniform, the prom dress, the wedding dress, the little black dress, and the burial dress. Beyond the semiotic, tactile, and visual aspects of the dresses themselves, the narratives delve into what dresses reveal about fundamental aspects of human experience: identity, embodiment, relationship, and mortality. Bought or made, then worn, forgotten, remembered, re-constructed, and re-interpreted, each dress offers a new glimpse into how we construct meaning in our daily lives, and how dresses serve to reinforce or resist social structures and cultural expectations."--BOOK JACKET.
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Not Just Any Dress: Narratives of Memory, Body, and Identity (Counterpoints (New York, N.Y.), V. 220.)
June 2004, Peter Lang Publishing
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in English
0820461180 9780820461182
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