Ruth Barnes Ashmolean Museum,Oxford Joanne B. Eicher Regents' Professor, Department of Design, Housing and Apparel, University of Minnesota

• R. Barnes and J. Eicher, Introduction - J. Eicher and N.E. Roach-Higgins, Dress and Gender: Definition and Classification of Dress: Implications for Analysis of Gender Roles - R. Barnes, Women as Headhunters: The Making and Meaning of Textiles in a Southeast Asian Context - L. Lefferts, Cut and Sewn: The Textiles of Social Organisation in Thailand - D. Geirnaert, Purse-Proud: Of Betel and Areca Nut Bags in Laboya (West Sumba, Eastern Indonesia) - C. Pancake, Gender Boundaries in the Production of Guatamalan Textiles - S. Baizerman, The Jewish Kippa Sruga and the Social Construction of Gender in Israel - C. Cerny, Quilted Apparel and Gender Identity: An American Case Study - L. Sciama, Lace Making in Venetian Culture - P. Dransart, Pachamama: The Inka Earth Mother of the Long Sweeping Garment - S. Michelman and T. Erekosima, Kalabari Dress in Nigeria: visual Analysis and Gender Implications - L. Cort, Whose Sleeves? Gender, Class, and Meaning in Japanese Dress of the Seventeenth Century - J. Leslie, The Significance of Dress for the Orthodox Hindu Woman - O.P. Joshi, Continuity and Change in Hindu Women's Dress - H. Callaway, Dressing for Dinner in the Bush: Rituals of Self-Definition and British Imperial Authority - R. Bailey, Clothes Encounters of the Gynecological Kind: Medical Mandates and Maternity Modes USA, 1850-1990 - M. Young, Dress and Modes of Address: Structural Forms for Policewomen

'...this important, thought-provoking work, breaks new ground and could conceivably spawn future Women's Studies research in many lands and languages.'Dress...a rich and diverse collection of essays, with a wide ethnographic and historical range that makes it a valuable and useful book for those interested in either dress or gender, and indispensable for those interested in both.Journal of the Anthropological Society of OxfordThis excellent volume should serve as a useful resource.Choice'... an extremely rich analysis of dress as a form of gender identification.'ITAA Newsletter