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A visual exploration of women in the workplace and what they have worn

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A woman can be a firefighter, surgeon, astronaut, military officer, athlete, judge, and scientist. So what does it mean to dress like a woman?

Dress Like a Woman turns that question on its head by sharing a myriad of interpretations across history. The book includes more than 240 incredible photographs that illustrate how women´s roles have changed over the last century. The women pictured in this book inhabit a fascinating intersection of gender, fashion, politics, culture, class, nationality, and race. You´ll see some familiar faces, including trailblazers Shirley Chisholm, Amelia Earhart, Angela Davis, Georgia O´Keeffe, and Michelle Obama, but the majority of photographs are of ordinary working women from many backgrounds and professions. Pioneering scientists and mathematicians, leading civil rights and feminist activists, factory workers and lumberjacks, stay-at-home moms and domestic workers, and artists and musicians; all express their individual style and dress to get the job done.

With essays by renowned fashion writer Vanessa Friedman and New York Times bestselling author Roxane Gay, Dress Like a Woman offers a comprehensive look at the role of gender and clothing in the workplace - and proves that there´s no single way to dress like a woman.

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Vanessa Friedman is the fashion director and chief fashion critic at the New York Times . She was previously the fashion director of The Financial Times , and her writing has appeared in Vogue , The New Yorker , Vanity Fair , and more. She lives in New York City.

Roxane Gay is the New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist. Her writing has appeared in Best American Mystery Stories 2014 , Best American Short Stories 2012 , Best Sex Writing 2012 , A Public Space , McSweeney´s , Tin House , Oxford American , American Short Fiction , Virginia Quarterly Review , and many others. She is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times . She is the author of the books Ayiti , An Untamed State , Difficult Women, and the forthcoming Hunger . She is also the author of World of Wakanda for Marvel. She resides in Illinois.

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