A History of Textiles and Fashion in the Twentieth Century Yoruba World

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"In this book, Mutiat Titilope Oladejo offers a fascinating study of the economic, social, and political role that textile and fashion have played throughout history until contemporary times for the Yoruba women. In this valuable study, Oladejo exquisitely provides well-researched and well-documented details about the nexus between Yoru?ba? women as textile consumers and the active roles they have played not only as textile producers, weavers, and traders, but also as fashion icons and fashion designers, thus allowing the reader to understand the importance of textile and fashion for the social and political identity formations of these women."Heike Raphael-HernandezProfessor of American Studies, University of Wuerzburg, Germany; co-editor of Migrating the Black Body: The African Diaspora and Visual Culture; author of Contemporary African American Women Writers and Ernst Bloch's Principle of Hope"An extraordinary rich and dense account on the history of textiles and fashion from twentieth century Yoruba worlds. Focused on the role of women as producers, traders and consumers, the book provides readers with a sense of sartorial practices and intense attachment to textiles shaped by local and outside materials and techniques. Another strength of the book is the thorough examination of all relevant aspects of textiles and styles, including economic, political and social levels. It is Mutiat Titilope Oladejo's merit to open our eyes and ears to textiles and fashion as an essential part of (contemporary) culture and public life!"Professor Kerstin PintherInstitut fuer Kunstgeschichte, LMU Muenchen