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Was it something I wore? : dress, identity, materiality / edited by Relebohile Moletsane, Claudia Mitchell, Ann Smith.

Contributor(s): Moletsane, Relebohile | Mitchell, Claudia | Smith, Ann, PhD in Feminist Literary Theory [Editor]Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Cape Town, South Africa : HSRC Press, 2012. Description: x, 372 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780796923622Subject(s): Clothing and dress -- South Africa | Identity (Philosophical concept)DDC classification: 391.00968 WAS Also available online.
Contents:
Reconfiguring dress / Claudia Mitchell, Relebohile Moletsane and Kathleen Pithouse -- 'White' women in 'black' clothing : overtures towards Africanness in dress in a South African context / Juliette Leeb-du Toit -- Stories fluttering in the wind : how clotheslines write our lives / Hourig Attarian -- Take a picture : photographs, dress, gender and self-study / Ann Smith -- Aesthetics and identity in contemporary South African fashion / Desiree Lewis -- Gender and the politics of the Basotho blanket / Mathabo Khau -- Ayashisa 'mateki : Converse All Stars and the making of African masculinities / Kopano Ratele -- Do clothes make a (wo)man? Exploring the role of dress in shaping South African domestic workers' identities / Sithabile Ntombela -- A loud silence : the history of funeral dress among the Ndau of Zimbabwe / Marshall Tamuka Maposa -- Dressing sex/wearing a condom : exploring social constructions of sexuality through a social semiotic analysis of the condom / Ran Tao and Claudia Mitchell -- Who wears the trousers here? Women teachers and the politics of gender and the dress code in South African schools / Pontso Moorosi -- Was it something she wore? Gender-based violence and the policing of the place of girls in the school space / Naydene de Lange -- The gender politics of the school uniform / Nolutho Diko -- The perfect matric dance dress / Linda van Laren -- Angeke ngibe isitabane : the perceived relationship between dress and sexuality among young African men at the University of KwaZulu-Natal / Thabo Msibi -- Khangela amankengane : the role of dress amongst rural extension workers in KwaZulu-Natal / Bongiwe Mkhize -- Wearing our hearts on our sleeves : the T-shirt and the South African activist agenda / Relebohile Moletsane and Peliwe Lolwana -- The art of representation versus dressing to be invisible : who am I dressing for in contemporary Rwanda? / Éliane Ubalijoro -- Rewriting the script : drag, dress and the body politic / Crawl Evans and Robert J. Balfour -- Sari stories : fragmentary images of 'Indian woman' / Nyna Amin and Devarakshanam (Betty) Govinden -- Personal adornment and creative process as micro-resistance / Marlene de Beer.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Reconfiguring dress / Claudia Mitchell, Relebohile Moletsane and Kathleen Pithouse -- 'White' women in 'black' clothing : overtures towards Africanness in dress in a South African context / Juliette Leeb-du Toit -- Stories fluttering in the wind : how clotheslines write our lives / Hourig Attarian -- Take a picture : photographs, dress, gender and self-study / Ann Smith -- Aesthetics and identity in contemporary South African fashion / Desiree Lewis -- Gender and the politics of the Basotho blanket / Mathabo Khau -- Ayashisa 'mateki : Converse All Stars and the making of African masculinities / Kopano Ratele -- Do clothes make a (wo)man? Exploring the role of dress in shaping South African domestic workers' identities / Sithabile Ntombela -- A loud silence : the history of funeral dress among the Ndau of Zimbabwe / Marshall Tamuka Maposa -- Dressing sex/wearing a condom : exploring social constructions of sexuality through a social semiotic analysis of the condom / Ran Tao and Claudia Mitchell -- Who wears the trousers here? Women teachers and the politics of gender and the dress code in South African schools / Pontso Moorosi -- Was it something she wore? Gender-based violence and the policing of the place of girls in the school space / Naydene de Lange -- The gender politics of the school uniform / Nolutho Diko -- The perfect matric dance dress / Linda van Laren -- Angeke ngibe isitabane : the perceived relationship between dress and sexuality among young African men at the University of KwaZulu-Natal / Thabo Msibi -- Khangela amankengane : the role of dress amongst rural extension workers in KwaZulu-Natal / Bongiwe Mkhize -- Wearing our hearts on our sleeves : the T-shirt and the South African activist agenda / Relebohile Moletsane and Peliwe Lolwana -- The art of representation versus dressing to be invisible : who am I dressing for in contemporary Rwanda? / Éliane Ubalijoro -- Rewriting the script : drag, dress and the body politic / Crawl Evans and Robert J. Balfour -- Sari stories : fragmentary images of 'Indian woman' / Nyna Amin and Devarakshanam (Betty) Govinden -- Personal adornment and creative process as micro-resistance / Marlene de Beer.

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