Barbara Burman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3990884 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara Burman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara |
| FAMILY NAME | Burman |
| SIGNATURE | BURMAN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southampton |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Findings
Knitwear in Fashion Sandy Black
Pocketing the Difference
This study situates pockets as significant gendered objects in the dress and lives of men and women in the period from the 1790s to 1914. Using surviving examples and a diverse range of visual and documentary sources, it examines the role of pockets in the consumption of personal possessions and money, and explores how pockets occupied a special place in relation to the body and its gestures. By revealing differences in the way men and women used…
Material Strategies Engendered
Racing bodies
This article explores the dress of pioneer women racing drivers and aviators in the period 1900–39. It traces how they transformed their dress and appearance from the amateur improvisations of the Edwardian period to the streamlined ‘speed queens’ of the 1930s. It argues that their various clothing strategies represented and embodied their determined negotiation of boundaries and frontiers of culture and gender as they successfully embraced the p…
The Culture of Sewing
Throughout its long history, home dressmaking has been a formative experience in the lives of millions of women. In an age of relative affluence and mass production, it is easy to forget that just over a generation ago, young girls from middle- and working-class backgrounds were routinely taught to sew as a practical necessity. However, not only have the skills involved in home dressmaking been overlooked and marginalized due to their association…
Pocketing the Difference
This study situates pockets as significant gendered objects in the dress and lives of men and women in the period from the 1790s to 1914. Using surviving examples and a diverse range of visual and documentary sources, it examines the role of pockets in the consumption of personal possessions and money, and explores how pockets occupied a special place in relation to the body and its gestures. By revealing differences in the way men and women used…
Racing bodies
This article explores the dress of pioneer women racing drivers and aviators in the period 1900–39. It traces how they transformed their dress and appearance from the amateur improvisations of the Edwardian period to the streamlined ‘speed queens’ of the 1930s. It argues that their various clothing strategies represented and embodied their determined negotiation of boundaries and frontiers of culture and gender as they successfully embraced the p…
Material Strategies Engendered
The Culture of Sewing
Throughout its long history, home dressmaking has been a formative experience in the lives of millions of women. In an age of relative affluence and mass production, it is easy to forget that just over a generation ago, young girls from middle- and working-class backgrounds were routinely taught to sew as a practical necessity. However, not only have the skills involved in home dressmaking been overlooked and marginalized due to their association…
Racing bodies
This article explores the dress of pioneer women racing drivers and aviators in the period 1900–39. It traces how they transformed their dress and appearance from the amateur improvisations of the Edwardian period to the streamlined ‘speed queens’ of the 1930s. It argues that their various clothing strategies represented and embodied their determined negotiation of boundaries and frontiers of culture and gender as they successfully embraced the p…
Pocketing the Difference
This study situates pockets as significant gendered objects in the dress and lives of men and women in the period from the 1790s to 1914. Using surviving examples and a diverse range of visual and documentary sources, it examines the role of pockets in the consumption of personal possessions and money, and explores how pockets occupied a special place in relation to the body and its gestures. By revealing differences in the way men and women used…
Material Strategies Engendered
Knitwear in Fashion Sandy Black
Findings
Fashion and Cultural Textiles (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · History (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Embodied cognition (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies (2 works) · History (2 works)