Lycra: How A Fiber Shaped America (Routledge Series for Creative Teaching and Learning in Anthropology) - Softcover

Book 2 of 14: Routledge Series for Creative Teaching and Learning in Anthropology

O'Connor, Kaori

 
9780415804370: Lycra: How A Fiber Shaped America (Routledge Series for Creative Teaching and Learning in Anthropology)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 041580437X ISBN 13: 9780415804370
Publisher: Routledge, 2011

Synopsis

"The Anthropology of Stuff" is part of a new Series dedicated to innovative, unconventional ways to connect undergraduate students and their lived concerns about our social world to the power of social science ideas and evidence. Our goal with the project is to help spark social science imaginations and in doing so, new avenues for meaningful thought and action. Each "Stuff" title is a short (100 page) "mini text" illuminating for students the network of people and activities that create their material world.

Lycra describes the development of a specific fabric, but in the process provides students with rare insights into U.S. corporate history, the changing image of women in America, and how a seemingly doomed product came to occupy a position never imagined by its inventors and contained in the wardrobe of virtually every American. And it will generate lively discussion of the story of the relationship between technology, science and society over the past half a century.

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About the Author

Kaori O’Connor is a Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology, University College London (UCL) in the United Kingdom. She holds four degrees in anthropology, worked on Vogue magazine, was the founding editor of the Fashion Guide to London, has written several books on fashion and shopping, designed hand knitwear and originated and presented fashion and lifestyle features for television, radio and national newspapers. She also works on the anthropology of food, for which she won the 2009 Sophie Coe Prize for her study of the Hawaiian Luau. Her most recent book is The English Breakfast: The Biography of a National Meal published by Kegan Paul.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2011
Language
English
ISBN 10 
041580437X
ISBN 13 
9780415804370
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
192

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