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Why Women Wear What they Wear (Materializing Culture)

by Sophie Woodward

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'Why Women Wear What they Wear' presents an intimate ethnography of clothing choice. The book uses real women's lives and clothing decisions - observed and discussed at the moment of getting dressed - to illustrate theories of clothing, the body, and identity.

Clothing and dressSocial aspectsPsychological aspectsSocial & cultural anthropology, ethnography