Donald Clay Johnson is Curator, Ames Library of South Asia, University of Minnesota.
Helen Bradley Foster is Lecturer, University of Minnesota.

Also available in hardback, 9781845206925 £55.00 (November, 2007)

Introduction, Helen Bradley Foster and Donald Clay Johnson

Part I. Historical Perspectives
1. Sight, Sound, and Sentiment in Greek Village Dress, Linda Welters, University of Rhode Island
2. More than Costume History: Dress in Somali Culture, Heather Marie Akou, Indiana University
3. Dress, Hungarian Socialism, and Resistance, Katalin Medvedev, University of Minnesota
4. Clothes Make the Empire: British Dress in India, Donald Clay Johnson, University of Minnesota
5. African American Enslavement and Escaping in Disguise, Helen Bradley Foster, University of Minnesota

Part II. Living Traditions
6. Indian Madras Plaids as Real India, Sandra Evenson, University of Idaho
7. The Role of Scents and the Body in Turkey, Marlene Breu, Western Michigan University
8. Awakening the Senses: the Aesthetics of Moroccan Berber Dress, Cynthia Becker, Boston University
9. The Power of Touch: Women's Waistbeads in Ghana, Suzanne Gott, Kansas City Art Institute
10. Performing Dress and Adornment in Southeastern Nigeria, Sarah Adams, University of Iowa

Part III. Challenging Traditions
11. Women, Migration, and the Experience of Dress, Mary A. Littrell, Colorado State University and Jennifer Paff Ogle, Colorado State University
12. Handmade Textiles: Manufacturing African Authenticity, Victoria L. Rovine, University of Florida
13. Growing Old and Dressing (Dis)Gracefully, Annette Lynch, University of Northern Iowa, M. Elise Radina, Miami University and Marybeth C. Stalp, University of Northern Iowa

Part IV. The Future
14. Embodying the Feminine: Male-to-Female cross-Dressing, Jane E. Hegland, South Dakota State University and Nancy Nelson Hodges, University of North Carolina
15. Virtual Sensation: Dress Online, Suzanne Loker, Cornell University and Susan P. Ashdown, Cornell University