Gender, Costume, Textile, Technique: Women, Clothing, Cultural Representation and Modern Japan (Brill's Japanese Studies Library, 79)

Author: Hartley, Barbara

Number Of Pages: 336

EAN: 9789004710108

Release Date: 14-03-2025

Package Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.4 x 0.7 inches

Languages: English

Binding: Hardcover

Details: This book, a unique contribution to the field of kimono and Japan-related clothing studies, challenges uncritical readings of clothing from the lives of Japanese women and cultural representations of women wearing these clothes. Chapters ground understandings of clothing, including kimono, in the lived experience of different groups of women in modern Japan.
Also discussing cosplay outside Japan, the collection argues that items worn by women are produced and consumed in a gendered and highly politicised socio-historical environment. Examining, for example, women's recent renewed enthusiasm for kimono, in addition to representations of monpe, kimono and other attire in film and narrative, the book includes three new translations of clothing commentary by women writers from Japan.
Contributors are: Tomoko Aoyama, Yasuko Claremont, Sheila Cliffe, Barbara Hartley, Helen Kilpatrick, Emerald King, Machiko Iwahashi, Komashaku Kimi, Rio Otomo, Sata Ineko, Jennifer Scott, and Shirasu Masako.