Not Just Any Dress Narratives of Memory, Body, and Identity

The Editors: Sandra Weber is Professor of Education and a Fellow at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute at Concordia University, Montreal. Claudia Mitchell is a Professor and Chair in the School of Education at the University of Natal, South Africa. Her most recent book, Researching Children’s Popular Culture: The Cultural Spaces of Childhood (with Jacqueline Reid-Walsh) was published in 2002. Together, Weber and Mitchell have co-authored That’s Funny, You Don’t Look Like a Teacher: Interrogating Images of Identity in Popular Culture (1995) and Reinventing Ourselves as Teachers: Beyond Nostalgia (1999). Co-founders of the Image and Identity Research Collective, they have also co-produced two documentaries on prom dressing, girlhood, and youth culture: Canadian Pie (2002), and Dress Fitting (2000).