As never before, women are rightfully in positions of political power, and into the maelstrom of mass media challenges to their fashions and their right to govern. An examination of the fraught narratives surrounding the clothing of women in leadership in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the United States, Hong Kong, Taiwan, India and Indonesia.
Review of: Fashion, Women and Power: The Politics of Dress, Denise N. Rall (ed.) (2022) Bristol: Intellect Ltd., 235 pp., ISBN 978-1-78938-461-1, p/bk, £22.00/$29.99
A relatively new type of raised beadwork has “become a way of life” for the Oneida people of Wisconsin. “Beading extravaganzas” are important social events, and beadwork adorns ritual objects such as graduation stoles. This examination of contemporary Oneida beadwork functions as an intriguing update to Ruth Phillip’s 1990 TSA paper, “Moccasins into Slippers: Traditions and Transformations in Nineteenth-Century Woodlands Indian Textiles.” Phillips documented how indigenous forms “morphed” into objects made for sale to non-natives at sites such as Niagara Falls. While even tourist art was part of native cultural identity, its greatest significance was as a source of income in a changing cultural landscape.
Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewAimee E. Newell. A Stitch in Time: The Needlework of Aging Women in Antebellum America. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2014. x+265 pp.; appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95 (paper).Beverly GordonBeverly GordonUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmailPrint SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Winterthur Portfolio Volume 49, Number 2/3Summer/Autumn 2015 Published for the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Inc. Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/683049 Views: 33Total views on this site For permission to reuse, please contact [email protected].PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.
Journal Article Amish Quilts: Crafting an American Icon Get access Janneken Smucker. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. xviii, 270 pp. $34.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 4, March 2015, Pages 1246–1247, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav057 Published: 01 March 2015
"Fundraising, Flirtation and Fancywork: Charity Bazaars in Nineteenth Century Australia. By Annette Shiell. (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012. Pp. 316. $76.00.)." The Historian, 77(4), pp. 851–852
(2015). History of Design: Decorative Arts and Material Culture, 1400–2000, edited by Pat Kirkham and Susan Weber. Design and Culture: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 136-138.
This stunning book is a scholarly but accessible catalog for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 2013 exhibition “Interwoven Globe.” Amelia Peck, curator of American Decorative Arts, conceived the exh...
demonstrating greater understandings of the complexities of creating modern designs would have been helpful. Some suggestions for further assessment could have included, but are not limited to: the development of prototypes for furniture and accessories that could be mass produced (Gray was leery of this); new materials and designs coming out of wartime that became everyday items; and changing roles in the household at large. This text is a valuable contribution to the field of modern design, a period when traditional notions of masculinity and femininity were being revised but were still often under wraps. Rault addresses what so many before her failed to do when she calls for a reevaluation of Eileen Gray’s often overlooked work as an original contribution to (and critique of dominant forms of) modernity. Rault’s introduction, first chapter, and bibliography would be excellent additions to courses in architectural theory or gender studies in architecture.
