Front Matter

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. List of figures vii
4. List of contributors xv
5. Introduction 1
6. I Fashioning identity 23
7. 1 Wearing a gendered tree 25
8. 2 Women for cotton and men for wool 47
9. 3 Gendered blue 72
10. 4 Bhutanese women and the performance of globalization 92
11. 5 Weaving and dyeing the ideal of reproduction among Shidong Miao in Guizhou province 113
12. II Gendering creative agency 133
13. 6 Soft power 135
14. 7 Investigating female entrepreneurship in silk weaving in contemporary Cambodia 158
15. 8 (Re)crafting distribution networks for contemporary Philippine textiles 180
16. 9 Women weaving silken identities and revitalizing various Japanese textile traditions 207
17. III Creative voices for change 229
18. 10 Entangled histories of craft and conflict 231
19. 11 The politics of wastefulness and ‘the poetics of waste’ 258
20. 12 Made in Rana Plaza 284
21. Index 312