Table of Contents

Introduction—R. Barnes & J. Eicher * Dress and Gender: Definition and Classification of Dress: Implications for Analysis of Gender Roles—J. Eicher & N.E. Roach-Higgins * Women as Headhunters: The Making and Meaning of Textiles in a Southeast Asian Context—R. Barnes * Cut and Sewn: The Textiles of Social Organisation in Thailand—L. Lefferts * Purse-Proud: Of Betel and Areca Nut Bags in Laboya (West Sumba, Eastern Indonesia)—D. Geirnaert * Gender Boundaries in the Production of Guatamalan Textiles—C. Pancake * The Jewish Kippa Sruga and the Social Construction of Gender in Israel—S. Baizerman * Quilted Apparel and Gender Identity: An American Case Study—C. Cerny * Lace Making in Venetian Culture—L. Sciama * Pachamama: The Inka Earth Mother of the Long Sweeping Garment—P. Dransart * Kalabari Dress in Nigeria: visual Analysis and Gender Implications—S. Michelman & T. Erekosima * Whose Sleeves? Gender, Class, and Meaning in Japanese Dress of the Seventeenth Century—L. Cort * The Significance of Dress for the Orthodox Hindu Woman —J. Leslie * Continuity and Change in Hindu Women's Dress—O.P. Joshi * Dressing for Dinner in the Bush: Rituals of Self-Definition and British Imperial Authority—H. Callaway * Clothes Encounters of the Gynecological Kind: Medical Mandates and Maternity Modes USA, 1850-1990—R. Bailey * Dress and Modes of Address: Structural Forms for Policewomen —M. Young