Clothing and Fashion in Southern History /

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"The first volume to closely study the history of clothing and its relationship to work, power, and identity in the South"--

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Walton, Becca (Editor), Ownby, Ted (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2020]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Clothing and dress > Social aspects.
Clothing and dress.
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Clothing and dress > Social aspects > Southern States.
Clothing and dress > Southern States > History.
Southern States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Where should we begin? / Ted Ownby and Becca Walton
  • Patches of resistance on the badges of enslavement: enslaved southerners, Negro cloth, and fashionability in the cotton South / Katie Knowles
  • Confederate cultures of military clothing production / Sarah Jones Weicksel
  • WPA sewing projects: a case study in southern encounters with the New Deal welfare state / Susannah Walker
  • "Thinking of you every minute (and every stitch)": sewing, clothing, and identity at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman, 1950-1969 / Becca Walton
  • The Mississippi Poor People's Corporation: clothing manufacture and consumer capitalism in defense of Black voting rights, 1965-1974 / William Sturkey
  • The dress makes the band: used clothes, drag acts, and bohemians in the Athens, Georgia music scene / Grace Elizabeth Hale
  • Afterword / Jonathan Prude.

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