"During the late 1800s and early 1900s, it was common practice for milliners to decorate women's hats with birds' feathers and plumes-and sometimes with the birds themselves. As many as 300 million birds per year were killed for this fashionable enterprise, causing the extinction of some entire...

Introduction -- The culturalization of the headscarf -- The world of retail sales -- Demarcation lines in retail employment and the exclusion of the headscarf -- Great expectations: the meanings loaded on the headscarf -- The desire to be unmarked: distancing from the essentialized meanings of...

Photograph of 5 people. This photograph is of two portraits. The first portrait is of two girls and a woman sitting on what appears to be a bed in front of a backdrop with another girl standing behind them. The three girls are wearing similar hats and one of the hats has what appears to be a...

Photograph of 6 people. This photograph is of four men in front of a gas and service station. There is a young boy in the doorway of the service station and another boy near the side of the building. One man is standing with one hand on the back of an automobile. He is wearing a suit, tie and a...