Maura Banim
Biographic Data
| ID | 1250037 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maura Banim |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maura |
| FAMILY NAME | Banim |
| SIGNATURE | BANIM M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sunderland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
It's Like Planet Holiday”–Women's Dressed Self-presentation on Holiday
Through the Wardrobe
Relating to clothes is a fundamental experience in the lives of most Western women. Even when choice is fraught with ambivalence, clothing matters. From considerations about dressing for success, to worries about weight, through to investing particular articles of clothing with meaning bordering on the sacred, what we wear speaks volumes about personal identity - what is revealed, what is concealed, what is created. This book fills a gap in the e…
Dressed to Impress
Our dress is our identity. In dress, we live, move and have our social being. This book shows how the dressed body is central to the construction of a recognizable identity and provides accessible accounts of the particular dress 'ways' associated with a considerable variety of lifestyles. Churchgoers, ballerinas, Muslim schoolgirls, glamour models, 'vampires', monks and country gents all fashion a social self through dress. These cultures all ha…
Personal Collections
Women's relationship with clothes has been explored within a range of theoretical discourses about fashion that utilise the concept of ambivalence. This paper acknowledges that this may be a useful conceptualisation but argues that there is an absence of focus in most of these approaches concerning the reality of women using, reflecting on and generally living with their clothes. Using original research with a sample of 15 women, this paper attem…
Trapped in risky behaviour
The concept of empowerment within care environments has brought the issue of informed choice onto professionals’ and users’ agendas. However, this principle can be frustrated by a range of factors that reveal the tension between the autonomy of service users to take risks and the responsibility of service providers to assess and protect users from risks. This tension between users and providers has been noted within many areas of service but may …
Social representations of aggression
Controversy over Moscovici's concept of social representations has focused upon the extent to which they can be viewed as enduring cognitive structures characterizing social groups and whether individual members are ‘prisoners’ of their social representations, unable to duplicate the social representations of other social groups. Previous research has established a consistent gender difference in orientation toward aggression with men viewing it …
Personal Collections
Women's relationship with clothes has been explored within a range of theoretical discourses about fashion that utilise the concept of ambivalence. This paper acknowledges that this may be a useful conceptualisation but argues that there is an absence of focus in most of these approaches concerning the reality of women using, reflecting on and generally living with their clothes. Using original research with a sample of 15 women, this paper attem…
Social representations of aggression
Controversy over Moscovici's concept of social representations has focused upon the extent to which they can be viewed as enduring cognitive structures characterizing social groups and whether individual members are ‘prisoners’ of their social representations, unable to duplicate the social representations of other social groups. Previous research has established a consistent gender difference in orientation toward aggression with men viewing it …
Trapped in risky behaviour
The concept of empowerment within care environments has brought the issue of informed choice onto professionals’ and users’ agendas. However, this principle can be frustrated by a range of factors that reveal the tension between the autonomy of service users to take risks and the responsibility of service providers to assess and protect users from risks. This tension between users and providers has been noted within many areas of service but may …
Personal Collections
Women's relationship with clothes has been explored within a range of theoretical discourses about fashion that utilise the concept of ambivalence. This paper acknowledges that this may be a useful conceptualisation but argues that there is an absence of focus in most of these approaches concerning the reality of women using, reflecting on and generally living with their clothes. Using original research with a sample of 15 women, this paper attem…
Through the Wardrobe
Relating to clothes is a fundamental experience in the lives of most Western women. Even when choice is fraught with ambivalence, clothing matters. From considerations about dressing for success, to worries about weight, through to investing particular articles of clothing with meaning bordering on the sacred, what we wear speaks volumes about personal identity - what is revealed, what is concealed, what is created. This book fills a gap in the e…
Dressed to Impress
Our dress is our identity. In dress, we live, move and have our social being. This book shows how the dressed body is central to the construction of a recognizable identity and provides accessible accounts of the particular dress 'ways' associated with a considerable variety of lifestyles. Churchgoers, ballerinas, Muslim schoolgirls, glamour models, 'vampires', monks and country gents all fashion a social self through dress. These cultures all ha…
It's Like Planet Holiday”–Women's Dressed Self-presentation on Holiday
Art (4 works) · Fashion and Cultural Textiles (4 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Clothing (2 works) · Crafts, Textile, and Design (2 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (2 works) · History (2 works)