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Common Threads : A Cultural History of Clothing in American Catholicism /

A well-illustrated cultural history of the apparel worn by American Catholics, Sally Dwyer-McNulty's Common threads reveals the transnational origins and homegrown significance of clothing in developing identity, unity, and a sense of respectability for a major religious group that had long str...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Dwyer-McNulty, Sally (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. The origins and significance of Catholic clothing in America
  • The clothes make the man : clerical and liturgical garmenture, 1830s-1930s
  • Women religious on American soil : adaptation or authority in nineteenth-century America
  • School uniforms : a new look for Catholic girls
  • Outfitting the mystical body of Christ : apparel and activism
  • Tearing at the seams : the clothes no longer fit
  • Epilogue. Beyond the 1970s.