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Jiggle: (Re)Shaping American Women
Wendy A. Burns-Ardolino
March 13, 2008
00:37:25
Wendy A. Burns-Ardolino discusses her book, which spans the fields of women's studies, cultural studies, and media studies as it examines the significance of women's embodied experience with the most intimate feminine foundation garments.
Exploring Harry and Eleanor Callahan
Chip Simone
November 8, 2007
01:18:39
Photographers Chip Simone and John McWilliams, personal friends of the late photographer Harry Callahan, joined Julian Cox to discuss the artist and his muse, Eleanor, as teacher and artist, and to feature examples of their own work.
Marie-Antoinette, Queen of Fashion
Caroline Weber
March 10, 2007
01:12:38
Caroline Weber tells the story of how Marie-Antoinette's clothing choices helped make and unmake her reputation, altering the very course of French history.
Needles and Pens: Sewing Diaries of Four American Women
Karen Herbaugh
February 22, 2007
00:42:37
Karen Herbaugh discusses how the sewing diaries of three New England women and one young girl provide insight on everything from fashion and sewing to relationships and language at the turn of the 20th century.
When the Girls Came Out to Play: American Sportswear
Patricia Campbell Warner
February 15, 2007
00:31:52
Patricia Campbell Warner, professor of theater at UMASS Amherst, discusses her new book, When the Girls Came Out to Play, and the distinctly American style known as sportswear.
Last Mantua Maker: Women in Boston's Clothing Trades
Marla Miller
March 24, 2005
00:48:08
In 1845, after almost a dozen years in business, Rebecca Goodwin Major closed up shop. She was the very last Boston woman to call herself a mantuamaker in the pages of the city directory.
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German Expressionist Poetry, Identity and Clothing
Rachel Freudenburg
November 1, 2002
00:39:19
As part of Reclaiming a Lost Generation, Boston College German Studies professor Rachel Freudenburg delivers this reading of German Expressionist poetry and offers insights into its symbolic imagery.