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gender politics in postwar Afghanistan
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Billaud, Julie
- Publish Year
- 2015
- Shelfmark
- V IND 1P 2015 - B
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- media, terrorisme, zelfdoding, huwelijken, vrouwenbewegingen, vrouwenlichamen, mode, schoonheidsspecialisten, politieke participatie, literatuur
- Description
- After the attacks of September 11, 2001, the plight of Afghan women under Taliban rule was widely publicized in the United States as one of the humanitarian issues justifying intervention.This book explores the contradictions, ambiguities, and unintended effects of the emancipatory projects for Afghan women designed and imposed by external organizations. Billaud introduces readers to daily life in Afghanistan through portraits of women targeted by international aid policies. Examining encounters between international experts in gender and transitional justice, Afghan civil servants and NGO staff, and women unaffiliated with these organizations, Billaud unpacks some of the paradoxes that arise from competing understandings of democracy and rights practices.
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- Book/Boek
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- Miescher, Stephan F. > [ed.]
- Creator
- Mitchell, Michelle > [ed.]
- Creator
- Shibusawa, Naoko > [ed.]
- Contributor
- [et al.]
- Publish Year
- 2015
- Shelfmark
- WER 6 2015 - B
- Thesaurus
- imperialisme, kolonialisme, arbeid, mannelijkheid, LHBT, mode, slavernij, feminisme, vrouwenbewegingen, identiteit, 18e eeuw, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, bundel
- Description
- Special consideration in this volume is given to gender issues arising during periods when upheaval challenged colonial regimes, which often resulted in decolonization and independence. Chapters also reveal how former colonies transitioned into ‘nations,’ along with transnational dynamics that took place among modern states. A common thread woven through each article is the matter of precisely who it was that deserved to be treated and recognized as fully human in an era of imperial exchanges and ongoing capitalist globalization. Authors describe hemes as labour, commodities, fashion, mobility, and activism while exploring the dynamics of empire in destinations ranging from Africa and the Americas to Europe and Asia. .Originally published as Gender & History Volume 26 Issue 3
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Friends of the earth > [ed.]
- Contributor
- [et al.]
- Publish Year
- 2015
- Shelfmark
- WER 8 2015 - B
- Thesaurus
- milieu, ecofeminisme, klimaatveranderingen, media, mode, ngo's, reproductieve rechten, bundel
- Description
- This collection gathers essays and interviews from the leading lights of the international environmental and feminist movements to mount a powerful case that gender equality is essential to environmental progress. Using specific case studies, the contributors lay out the ways in which women’s issues intersect with environmental issues, and they detail concrete steps that organizations and campaigners big and small can take to ensure that they are pursuing these goals in tandem.
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- Book/Boek
- Corporate
- Design Museum
- Publish Year
- 2015
- Shelfmark
- WER 54 2015 - B
- Description
- The Design Museum, the world's leading museum in contemporary design shows the 50 most important dresses in social history and design. Famous faces that put them on the world stage , including Wallis Simpson, Jackie Kennedy, Twiggy and Cher and, of course, Princess Di,show the 50 most important garments their iconic status.
fashion, dress and modern social theory, 2nd Edition
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Entwistle, Joanne
- Publish Year
- 2015
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 3 2015 - B
- Thesaurus
- mode, kleding, identiteit, seksualiteit, sociale klasse, etniciteit, vrouwenlichamen
- Description
- Once fashion was seen as marginal. Now it entered into core economic discourse focused around ideas about ‘cultural’ and ‘creative’ work as a major driver of developed economies. This second edition gives a summary of the theories surrounding the role and function of fashion in modern society. Entwistle examines how fashion plays a crucial role in the formation of modern identity through its articulation of the body, gender and sexuality.The book offers a synthesis between the literature on fashion and dress and the sociology of the body. The book shows how an understanding of fashion and dress requires an understanding of the meanings acquired by the body in culture since it is the body that fashion speaks to and which is dressed in almost all social situations and encounters.
New York, Paris, Melbourne, Tokyo, Madrid, London
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Santamaria, Giuseppe
- Publish Year
- 2015
- Shelfmark
- WER 4 2015 - A
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- uiterlijk, kleding, mode, vrouwbeelden, fotoboek
- Description
- This book is snapshot of how women in some of the world's most stylish cities - New York, Paris, Melbourne, Tokyo, Madrid, London - are expressing themselves through fashion in the middle of this decade.
Peranakan fashion in an interconnected world 1500-1950
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Lee, Peter
- Publish Year
- 2015
- Shelfmark
- ZO AZ 1A 2014 - D
- Thesaurus
- kleding, klederdrachten, mode, dagelijks leven, slavernij, kolonialisme, historisch, Nederlands-Indië
- Description
- This book traces the history of the costume of Peranakan women: specifically, the sarong, kebaya, and baju panjang. The sarong kebaya is only a starting point for a rich history of language, women, trade, slavery, community formation, and education.Illustrated with historical photographs and images of sarongs and kebayas the book is a real reference. Peter Lee has amassed impressive documentation from primary and secondary sources in this book.
the dangers of dress past and present
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- David, Alison Matthews
- Publish Year
- 2015
- Shelfmark
- WER 4 2015 - B
- Description
- From insidious murder weapons to blaze-igniting crinolines, clothing has been the cause of death, disease and madness throughout history, by accident and design. Clothing is designed to protect, shield and comfort us, yet lurking amongst seemingly innocuous garments we find hats laced with mercury, frocks laden with arsenic and literally 'drop-dead gorgeous' gowns.Drawing upon surviving fashion objects and numerous visual and textual sources, encompassing louse-ridden military uniforms, accounts of the fiery deaths of Oscar Wilde's half-sisters and dancer Isadora Duncan's accidental strangulation by entangled scarf: the book explores how garments have tormented those who made and wore them, and harmed animals and the environment in the process.
feminism, sexuality and the pleasures of the visible
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Willson, Jacki
- Publish Year
- 2015
- Shelfmark
- VS 3 2015 - B
- Thesaurus
- mode, kleding, camp, vrouwelijkheid, vrouwenlichamen, seksualiteit, feminisme, 21e eeuw
- Description
- This book explores the ways in which extravagance, flamboyance and dressing up can open up possibilities for women to play around anarchically with familiar stereotypical tropes of femininity. This is protest through play, a pleasurable misbehavior that reflects a feminism for the twenty-first century. Willson discusses how, whether through pastiche, parody or pure pleasure, artists, artistes and indeed the spectators themselves can operate in excess of the restrictive images which saturate our visual culture.
tattoos, women and the politics of the body
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Thompson, Beverly Yuen
- Publish Year
- 2015
- Shelfmark
- VS 4 2015 - B
- Thesaurus
- vrouwenlichamen, mode, uiterlijk, vrouwbeelden, betaalde arbeid
- Description
- This book provides insight into the subculture of women with tattoos. Thompson visits tattoos parlors, talking to female tattoo artists and the women they ink, and she attends tattoo conventions and Miss Tattoo pageants where heavily tattooed women congregate to share their mutual love for the art form. Thompson finds that, despite the stigma and social opposition heavily tattooed women face, many feel empowered by their tattoos and strongly believe they are creating a space for self-expression that also presents a positive body image.
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