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The Fabrication Of Gender: Concept To Catwalk, Emily J. Pascoe

Senior Honors Projects

Gender, as I have come to understand it, is a vast, variable and personal response to one’s society and culture. As an interpretation of one’s biological sex it is a prominent aspect in our lives. Because of this prominence, attributes of gender are revealed in many forms. In relevance to fashion gender is manifested visually. Traits of femininity, androgyny and masculinity are rendered in dress and appearance.

I have portrayed these traits by using editorial fashion images to create a visual gender continuum. Using images from a compilation of current fashion magazines, whose target consumers are either men or women, …

Uncoverings: The Research Papers Of The American Quilt Study Group, Volume 32 (2011), Laurel Horton, Loretta B. Chase, Jan Coor-Pender Dodge, Aimee E. Newell, Phyllis S. Herda, Margaret M. Bingham, Valerie J. Davis, Jackie (Jacqueline) Schweitzer, Carolyn K. Ducey, Deborah E. Kraak

Uncoverings Journal

Preface by Laurel Horton

The Dublin Quilt: A Civil War Textile Document by Loretta B. Chase and Jan Coor-Pender

Dodge Seeking Enlightenment: A Quilt Historian's Guide to Freemasonry Aimee E. Newell Tivaevae: Women's Quilting in the Cook Islands by Phyllis Herda

The Collaborative Relationship between Professional Machine Quilters and Their Customers in the Contemporary Quilt Movement by Margaret M. Bingham

The Policy of Good Design: Quilt Designs and Designers from the WPA Milwaukee Handicrafts Project, 1935-1942 by Valerie J. Davis and Jackie Schweitzer

Reminiscences of Women's Work: Chintz Applique Album Quilts of the First Baptist Church of Philadelphia by Carolyn …