Resources
Material Culture Bibliography

Banim, M., & Guy, A. (2001). “Dis/continued selves: Why do women keep clothes they no longer wear.” In A. Guy, E. Green, & M. Banim, (Eds.) Through the Wardrobe: Women’s Relationships with their Clothes. Oxford & New York: Berg.

Barnard, M. (1996). Fashion as Communication. London and New York: Routledge.

Barnes, R. & Eicher, J. B. (Eds.) (1993). Dress and Gender: Making and Meaning. Oxford & Providence: Berg.

Beckerman, I. (1995). Love, Loss, and What I Wore. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.

Cozier, C. (2004). Uniform and weapon. In R.E. Reddock (ed). Interrogating Caribbean masculinities: Theoretical and empirical analyses. Jamaica: University of West Indies Press.

Daston, L. (2004). Things that talk: Object lessons from art and science. New York: Zone Books

De la Haye, A., & Wilson, E. (1999). Defining Dress: Dress as Object, Meaning, and Identity. Manchester & New York: Manchester University Press.

Derevenski, J. S. (2000). Children and Material Culture. London and New York: Routledge (An imprint of the Taylor and Francis Group).

Edwards, E. & Hart, J. (eds.) (2004) . Photographs, objects, histories on the materiality of images. New York: Routledge.

Eicher, J. B. (Ed.) (1995). Dress and Ethnicity: Changes Across Time and Space. Oxford & Washington DC: Berg.

Entwistle, J. (2000). The Fashioned Body: Fashion, Dress, and Modern Social Theory.
Cambridge: Polity Press and Blackwell.

Fowler, M. (1996). The Way She Looks Tonight: Five Women of Style. Toronto:
Random House.

Franklin, A. (2001). Black women and self-presentation: Appearing in (dis)guise. . In A.
Guy, E. Green, & M. Banim, (Eds.) Through the Wardrobe: Women’s
Relationships with their Clothes. Oxford & New York: Berg.

Goodfellow, C. (1993). The Ultimate Doll Book. Montreal: Reader's Digest Publishing.

Goodrum, A. (2001). “Land of hip and glory: Fashioning the ‘classic’ national body.” In W. J. F. Keenan (Ed.) Dressed to Impress: Looking the Part. Oxford & New York: Berg.

Green, E. (2001). Suiting ourselves: Women professors using clothes to signal authority,
belonging and personal styles. In A. Guy, E. Green, & M. Banim, (Eds.) Through
the Wardrobe: Women’s Relationships with their Clothes. Oxford
& New York: Berg.

Guy, A., Green, E., & Banim, M. (Eds.) (2001). Through the Wardrobe: Women’s
Relationships with their Clothes. Oxford & New York: Berg.

Hodder, I. (2000) ‘The Interpretation of Documents and Material Culture’ in Denzin, N. and Lincoln, L.S. (eds) Handbook of Qualitative Research (pp. 703-715). Thousand Oaks, Ca.: Sage

Hodder, I. (1997). Always momentary, fluid and flexible. Towards a reflexive excavation methodology. Antiquity, 71: 691-700.

Kaiser, S., Chandler, J., & Hammidi, T. (2001). Minding appearances in female academic culture. In A. Guy, E. Green, & M. Banim, (Eds.) Through the Wardrobe: Women’s Relationships with their Clothes. Oxford & New York: Berg.

Keenan, W. J. F. (2001). “Dress freedom: The personal and the political.” In W. J. F.
Keenan (Ed.) Dressed to Impress: Looking the Part. Oxford & New York: Berg.

Keenan, W. J. F. (2001). Introduction: ‘Sartor resartus’ Restored: Dress studies in carlylean perspective. In W. J. F. Keenan (Ed.) Dressed to Impress: Looking the Part. Oxford & New York: Berg.

Kingery, D. (1996). Learning from Things: Method and Theory of Material Culture
Studies,.Washington: Smithsonian Press.

Kline, S. (1993). Out of the Garden: Toys and Children's Culture in the Age of TV Marketing. Toronto: Garamond Press.

Kress, G. & Leenwen, T. (1996). Reading Images; The Grammar of Visual Design. London: Routledge.

Lord, M. G. (1994). Forever Barbie: The unauthorized biography of a Real Doll. New York: William Morrow & Company.

Lurie, A. (1992). The Language of Clothes. London: Bloomsbury. Reprinted from the original; 1981.

Mavor, C. (1999). Becoming: The Photographs of Clementina, Viscountess Hawarden.
Durham & London: Duke University Press.

Miller, W. (1998) The Epic Struggle between G.I. Joe, Barbie and the Companies that Make Them. New York: Times Book and Random House.

Mitchell, C. & Reid-Walsh, J. (2002). Physical spaces: Children’s bedrooms as cultural texts. Researching children’s popular culture: The cultural spaces of childhood. London and New York: Routledge Taylor Francis.

Mitchell, C. & Reid-Walsh, J. (1995). “And I want to thank you Barbie: Barbie as a site for cultural interrogation.” In H. Giroux & P. Shannon (Eds.) Education and Cultural Studies: Toward a Performative Practice. London: Routledge. 103-116.

Parkins, W. (Ed.) (2002). Dress, Gender, Citizenship: Fashioning the Body Politic. Oxford & New York: Berg.

Riggins, S. H. (1994). ‘Fieldwork in the living room: An autoethnographic essay.’ In The Socialness of things: Essays on the socio-semiotics of objects. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyer.

Rogers, M.F. (1999). Barbie Culture. London: SAGE Publications.

Schlerth, T. (1985). “The material culture of childhood: Problems and potential in Historical Exploration." Material History Bulletin. Spring (21) :1-14.

Spence, J. (2001). “Flying on One Wing.” In A. Guy, E. Green, & M. Banim, (Eds.) Through the Wardrobe: Women’s Relationships With Their Clothes. Oxford & New York: Berg.

Strallybrass, P. (1999). “Worn worlds: Clothing, mourning, and the life of things.” In D.B. Amos, & L. Weissberg (Eds.) Cultural Memory and the Construction of Identity. Detroit: Wayne State University Press.

Sutton-Smith, B. (1986). Toys as Culture. New York: Gardner Press.

Tseelon, E. (2001). Ontological, epistemological and, methodological clarifications in
fashion research: from critique to empirical suggestions. In A. Guy, E. Green, & M.
Banim, (Eds.) Through the Wardrobe: Women’s Relationships with their Clothes.
Oxford & New York: Berg.

Weber, S. & Mitchell, C. (2004). Theorizing dress stories. Not just any dress: Narratives of memory, body and identity. New York: Peter Lang.

White, M. (1993). The Material Child: Coming of Age in Japan and America. New York: Free Press.

Willis, P., Jones, S., Canaan, J., & Hurd G. (1990). Common culture: Symbolic Work at Play in the Everyday Cultures of the Young. Milton Keynes: Open University Press.

Wilson, E. (1992). “Fashion and the post-modern body.” In J. Ash and E. Wilson (Eds.) Chic Thrills: A Fashion Reader. London: Pandora.

 
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