Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Modern Age

Alexandra Palmer is the Nora E. Vaughan Fashion Costume Senior Curator at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada. She also teaches at the University of Toronto.

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• List of IllustrationsIntroductionAlexandra Palmer (Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada)Chapter 1 – TextilesSusan Ward (Independent scholar and curator, USA)Chapter 2 – Production and DistributionVeronique Pouillard (University of Oslo, Norway)Chapter 3 – The BodyAdam Geczy (University of Sydney, Australia) and Vicki Karaminas (Massey University, New Zealand)Chapter 4 – Belief Susan J. Palmer (Concordia University, Canada) and Paul Gareau (University of Alberta, Canada)Chapter 5 – Gender and SexualityAnnamari Vanska (Aalto University, Finland)Chapter 6 – StatusJane Tynan (Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, UK)Chapter 7 – Ethnicity Simona Segre Reinach (Bologna University, Italy)Chapter 8 – Visual RepresentationsRachael Barron-Duncan (Central Michigan University, USA)Chapter 9 – Literary RepresentationsIrene Gammel (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada) and Katherine Mulhallen (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada)NotesBibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex