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The Pacific arts of Polynesia and Micronesia by Kaeppler, Adrienne Lois

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to Polynesian and Micronesian art -- Artistic visions, rituals, and sacred containers -- Aesthetics, carving, metaphor, and allusion -- Genealogical connections: the texts of textiles -- Adorning the adorned: tattoo, ornaments, clothing, fashion -- Ritual spaces, cultural landscapes: space, and the aesthetic environment.…”
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Creativity from constraints the psychology of breakthrough / by Stokes, Patricia D.

Table of Contents: “…The creativity problem -- Constraints and first choruses -- Constraints for creativity in literature -- Constraints for creativity in art -- Constraints for creativity in fashion -- Constraints for creativity in architecture -- Constraints for creativity in advertising -- Constraints for creativity in music -- Constraints for developing creativity -- Central concepts: a recap.…”
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Designing modern America Broadway to Main Street / by Innes, Christopher, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Styling for the modern age -- Egos at work -- Theatrical fashions -- Stage and screen -- Society scenery -- A century of progress -- Riding into the future -- The world of tomorrow -- Car culture -- Street scenes -- Reaching for the sky -- Suburban heaven -- Lifestyle begins in the kitchen -- Selling modernity -- Afterword : then and now.…”
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Everyday life & consumer culture in 18th-century Damascus by Grehan, James

Table of Contents: “…City & environment -- Bread & survival -- Luxury & variety : everyday food -- Luxury & variety : everyday drink -- Domestic space -- Fashion & deportment -- Conclusion -- Appendix A. …”
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Revolutionary womanhood feminisms, modernity, and the state in Nasser's Egypt / by Bier, Laura

Table of Contents: “…Egyptian women in question : the historical roots of state feminism -- Between home and workplace : fashioning the "working woman" -- Law, secularism and intimacy : debating the personal status laws -- The family is a factory : regulating reproduction -- Our sisters in struggle : state feminism and Third World imaginaries.…”
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Everyday life & consumer culture in 18th-century Damascus by Grehan, James

Table of Contents: “…City & environment -- Bread & survival -- Luxury & variety : everyday food -- Luxury & variety : everyday drink -- Domestic space -- Fashion & deportment -- Conclusion -- Appendix A. …”
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Revolutionary womanhood feminisms, modernity, and the state in Nasser's Egypt / by Bier, Laura

Table of Contents: “…Egyptian women in question : the historical roots of state feminism -- Between home and workplace : fashioning the "working woman" -- Law, secularism and intimacy : debating the personal status laws -- The family is a factory : regulating reproduction -- Our sisters in struggle : state feminism and Third World imaginaries.…”
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Designing modern America Broadway to Main Street / by Innes, Christopher, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Styling for the modern age -- Egos at work -- Theatrical fashions -- Stage and screen -- Society scenery -- A century of progress -- Riding into the future -- The world of tomorrow -- Car culture -- Street scenes -- Reaching for the sky -- Suburban heaven -- Lifestyle begins in the kitchen -- Selling modernity -- Afterword : then and now.…”
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Everyday Life under Communism and After : Lifestyle and Consumption in Hungary, 1945–2000 / by Valuch, Tibor

Table of Contents: “….: financial circumstances, prices, wages, and income inequalities in everyday life -- Chapter Three From plentiful privation to a consumer society: the changes and characteristics of consumer consumption -- Chapter Four This is how we lived: housing conditions, usage of living space, and interior decoration -- Chapter Five "Well-dressed and fashionable": changes in clothing styles, habits, and fashion -- Chapter Six "We ate, we drank, we filled our stomachs": nutrition, eating, and dietary habits -- Conclusions -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Everyday Life under Communism and After : Lifestyle and Consumption in Hungary, 1945–2000 / by Valuch, Tibor

Table of Contents: “….: financial circumstances, prices, wages, and income inequalities in everyday life -- Chapter Three From plentiful privation to a consumer society: the changes and characteristics of consumer consumption -- Chapter Four This is how we lived: housing conditions, usage of living space, and interior decoration -- Chapter Five "Well-dressed and fashionable": changes in clothing styles, habits, and fashion -- Chapter Six "We ate, we drank, we filled our stomachs": nutrition, eating, and dietary habits -- Conclusions -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Black France colonialism, immigration, and transnationalism / by Thomas, Dominic Richard David

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Black France in transcolonial contexts -- Francocentrism and the acquisition of cultural capital -- Textual ownership and the global mediation of blackness -- Rhetorical mediations of slavery -- Afro-parisianism and African feminisms -- Fashion matters : La sape and vestimentary codes in transnational contexts and urban diasporas -- African youth in the global economy.…”
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Collecting Mexico museums, monuments, and the creation of national identity / by Garrigan, Shelley E.

Table of Contents: “…Fine art and demand : debating the Mexican national canon (1876-1910) -- Our archaeology : science, citizenry, patrimony, and the museum -- The hidden lives of historical monuments : commerce, fashion, and memorial -- Collections at the World's Fair : rereading Mexico in Paris, 1889 -- Collecting numbers : statistics and the constructive force of deficiency.…”
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Women's movements and the Filipina, 1986-2008 / by Roces, Mina, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…The religious roots of women's oppression -- Prostitution, women's movements, and the victim narrative -- The woman as worker -- Indigenous women -- Hindi kailangan magtiis (there is no need to endure) -- Women's studies on the air -- Fashioning women through activism, ritual, and dress -- Women's movements in transnational spaces -- Women's movements in liminal spaces.…”
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Collecting Mexico museums, monuments, and the creation of national identity / by Garrigan, Shelley E.

Table of Contents: “…Fine art and demand : debating the Mexican national canon (1876-1910) -- Our archaeology : science, citizenry, patrimony, and the museum -- The hidden lives of historical monuments : commerce, fashion, and memorial -- Collections at the World's Fair : rereading Mexico in Paris, 1889 -- Collecting numbers : statistics and the constructive force of deficiency.…”
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Women's movements and the Filipina, 1986-2008 / by Roces, Mina, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…The religious roots of women's oppression -- Prostitution, women's movements, and the victim narrative -- The woman as worker -- Indigenous women -- Hindi kailangan magtiis (there is no need to endure) -- Women's studies on the air -- Fashioning women through activism, ritual, and dress -- Women's movements in transnational spaces -- Women's movements in liminal spaces.…”
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Black France colonialism, immigration, and transnationalism / by Thomas, Dominic Richard David

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Black France in transcolonial contexts -- Francocentrism and the acquisition of cultural capital -- Textual ownership and the global mediation of blackness -- Rhetorical mediations of slavery -- Afro-parisianism and African feminisms -- Fashion matters : La sape and vestimentary codes in transnational contexts and urban diasporas -- African youth in the global economy.…”
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Catharine Macaulay and Mercy Otis Warren the revolutionary Atlantic and the politics of gender / by Davies, Kate, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Catharine Macaulay, Thomas Hollis, and the London opposition -- Out Cornelia-izing Cornelia : portraits, profession, and the gendered character of learning -- Belle sauvage : Catharine Macaulay and the American war in Britain -- Mercy Otis Warren's revolutionary letters -- Free and easy : Boston's fashionable dilemma -- Mercy Otis Warren's independence.…”
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Catharine Macaulay and Mercy Otis Warren the revolutionary Atlantic and the politics of gender / by Davies, Kate, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Catharine Macaulay, Thomas Hollis, and the London opposition -- Out Cornelia-izing Cornelia : portraits, profession, and the gendered character of learning -- Belle sauvage : Catharine Macaulay and the American war in Britain -- Mercy Otis Warren's revolutionary letters -- Free and easy : Boston's fashionable dilemma -- Mercy Otis Warren's independence.…”
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The dressed society clothing, the body and some meanings of the world / by Corrigan, Peter, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Dress in the sensory world -- The dangers of dress : utopian critiques -- More than the times of our lives : dress and temporality -- The fabricated body : a new history -- Gift, circulation and exchange I : clothing in the family -- Gift, circulation and exchange II : clothing and fashion in cyberspace -- Conclusion: A hermeneutics of dress.…”
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The dressed society clothing, the body and some meanings of the world / by Corrigan, Peter, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Dress in the sensory world -- The dangers of dress : utopian critiques -- More than the times of our lives : dress and temporality -- The fabricated body : a new history -- Gift, circulation and exchange I : clothing in the family -- Gift, circulation and exchange II : clothing and fashion in cyberspace -- Conclusion: A hermeneutics of dress.…”
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