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Dress Like a Woman: Working Women and What They Wore
Contributor(s): Abrams Books, Abrams (Author), Friedman, Vanessa (Author), Gay, Roxane (Author)
ISBN: 1419729926     ISBN-13: 9781419729928
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
OUR PRICE:   $22.49  
Product Type: Hardcover
Published: March 2018
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Photography | Subjects & Themes - Fashion
- Photography | Subjects & Themes - Historical
- History | Women
Dewey: 391.2
LCCN: 2017949398
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.7" W x 9.5" (2.10 lbs) 224 pages
Themes:
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
 
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Publisher Description:
A woman can be a firefighter, surgeon, astronaut, military officer, athlete, judge, and scientist. So what does it mean to dress like a woman?

Dress Like a Woman turns that question on its head by sharing a myriad of interpretations across history. The book includes more than 240 incredible photographs that illustrate how women's roles have changed over the last century. The women pictured in this book inhabit a fascinating intersection of gender, fashion, politics, culture, class, nationality, and race. You'll see some familiar faces, including trailblazers Shirley Chisholm, Amelia Earhart, Angela Davis, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Michelle Obama, but the majority of photographs are of ordinary working women from many backgrounds and professions. Pioneering scientists and mathematicians, leading civil rights and feminist activists, factory workers and lumberjacks, stay-at-home moms and domestic workers, and artists and musicians; all express their individual style and dress to get the job done.

With essays by renowned fashion writer Vanessa Friedman and New York Times bestselling author Roxane Gay, Dress Like a Woman offers a comprehensive look at the role of gender and clothing in the workplace--and proves that there's no single way to dress like a woman.


Contributor Bio(s): Gay, Roxane: - Roxane Gay is the New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist and Hunger.Abrams Books: - Abrams BooksFriedman, Vanessa: - Vanessa Friedman is the fashion director and chief fashion critic at the New York Times.