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“heather akou”

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  • On the Job

    A History of American Work Uniforms

    by Heather Akou ...
    Through a variety of archival documents, artefacts, illustrations, and references to primary and secondary literature, On the Job explores the changing styles, business practices, and lived experiences of the people who make, sell, and wear service-industry uniforms in the United States.It highlights how the uniform business is distinct from the fashion business, including how manufacturing ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Creating African Fashion Histories

    Politics, Museums, and Sartorial Practices

    Edited by JoAnn McGregor, Heather Akou, Nicola Stylianou ...
    Creating African Fashion Histories examines the stark disjuncture between African self-fashioning and museum practices. Conventionally, African clothing, textiles, and body adornments were classified by museums as examples of trade goods, art, and ethnographic materials—never as "fashion." Counterposing the dynamism of African fashion with museums' historic holdings thus provides a unique way of ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Politics of Dress in Somali Culture

    by Heather M. Akou ...
    The universal act of dressing—shared by both men and women, young and old, rich and poor, minority and majority—has shaped human interactions, communicated hopes and fears about the future, and embodied what it means to be Somali. Heather Marie Akou mines politics and history in this rich and compelling study of Somali material culture. Akou explores the evolution of Somali folk dress, the role of ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Creating African Fashion Histories

    Politics, Museums, and Sartorial Practices

    by Jody Benjamin, Sarah Fee, Malika Kraamer, Harriet Hughes, Beth A. Buggenhagen, M. Angela Jansen, Peri M. Klemm, Erica de Greef, Edith Ojo, Helen Mears ...
    Creating African Fashion Histories examines the stark disjuncture between African self-fashioning and museum practices. Conventionally, African clothing, textiles, and body adornments were classified by museums as examples of trade goods, art, and ethnographic materials—never as "fashion." Counterposing the dynamism of African fashion with museums' historic holdings thus provides a unique way of ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

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  • Kids of Kabul: Living Bravely Through a Never-ending War

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    Since its publication in 2000, hundreds of thousands of children all over the world have read and loved The Breadwinner. By reading the story of eleven-year-old Parvana and her struggles living under the terror of the Taliban, young readers came to know the plight of children in Afghanistan.But what has happened to Afghanistan's children since the fall of the Taliban in 2001? In 2011, Deborah ... Read more

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  • The Routledge History of Fashion and Dress, 1800 to the Present

    Edited by Veronique Pouillard, Vincent Dubé-Senécal ...
    Series series Routledge Histories
    The time span covered by The Routledge History of Fashion and Dress starts in the nineteenth century, with the aftermath of the consumers’ revolution, and reaches all the way to the present. The fashion and garment industries have been international from the beginning and, as such, this volume looks at the history of fashion and dress through the lenses of both international and global history. ... Read more

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  • This Is Where You Belong

    Finding Home Wherever You Are

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  • A Deadly Triangle

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    A senior editor at Mother Jones dives into the lives of the extremely rich, showing the fascinating, otherworldly realm they inhabit—and the insidious ways this realm harms us all.Have you ever fantasized about being ridiculously wealthy? Probably. Striking it rich is among the most resilient of American fantasies, surviving war and peace, expansions and recessions, economic meltdowns and global ... Read more

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