6 Top sociology books like Worn: A People's History of Clothing by Sofi Thanhauser

Cover of Worn: A People's History of Clothing by Sofi Thanhauser

Worn: A People's History of Clothing

By: Sofi Thanhauser

4.17

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping and captivatingly told history of clothing and the stuff it's made of--an unparalleled d…

If you liked the sociology plot in Worn: A People's History of Clothing by Sofi Thanhauser , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of Ametora: How Japan Saved American Style by W. David Marx

1. Ametora: How Japan Saved American Style

By: W. David Marx

4.20

Format: 42 pages, Hardcover

Look closely at any typically "American" article of clothing these days, and you may be surprised t… read more

Similar categories in W. David Marx's Ametora: How Japan Saved American Style book and Sofi Thanhauser's Worn: A People's History of Clothing

  • fashion
  • cultural
  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times by Elizabeth Wayland Barber

2. Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times

By: Elizabeth Wayland Barber

2.83

Format: 124 pages, Paperback

New discoveries about the textile arts reveal women's unexpectedly influential role in ancient soci… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Wayland Barber's Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times book and Sofi Thanhauser's Worn: A People's History of Clothing

  • nonfiction
  • history

3. How to Read Nature: Awaken Your Senses to the Outdoors You've Never Noticed

By: Tristan Gooley

4.12

Format: 314 pages, Hardcover

"For those inclined to solve mysteries written into the landscape, this author's lead is one they'l… read more

Similar categories in Tristan Gooley's How to Read Nature: Awaken Your Senses to the Outdoors You've Never Noticed book and Sofi Thanhauser's Worn: A People's History of Clothing

Cover of To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick--and How We Can Fight Back by Alden Wicker

4. To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick--and How We Can Fight Back

By: Alden Wicker

4.32

Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition

A Silent Spring for your wardrobe, To Dye For is a jolting exposé that reveals the true cost of the… read more

Similar categories in Alden Wicker's To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick--and How We Can Fight Back book and Sofi Thanhauser's Worn: A People's History of Clothing

  • science
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • fashion
  • audiobook
Cover of All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess by Becca Rothfeld

5. All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess

By: Becca Rothfeld

3.76

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An acclaimed debut author's glorious call to throw off restraint and balance in culture in favor of… read more

Similar categories in Becca Rothfeld's All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess book and Sofi Thanhauser's Worn: A People's History of Clothing

  • cultural
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein

6. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

By: Naomi Klein

4.22

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more

Similar categories in Naomi Klein's Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World book and Sofi Thanhauser's Worn: A People's History of Clothing

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

Cover of The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World by Virginia Postrel

7. The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World

By: Virginia Postrel

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From Neanderthal string to 3D knitting, an “expansive” global history that highlights “how textiles… read more

Similar categories in Virginia Postrel's The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World book and Sofi Thanhauser's Worn: A People's History of Clothing

  • science
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • fashion
  • audiobook
Cover of Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater by Peggy Orenstein

8. Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater

By: Peggy Orenstein

3.89

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In this lively, funny memoir, Peggy Orenstein sets out to make a sweater from scratch--shearing, sp… read more

Similar categories in Peggy Orenstein's Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater book and Sofi Thanhauser's Worn: A People's History of Clothing

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The beauty was just mind-boggling for this English girl...It was like being in your own national park, but without the signs telling you what you're supposed to think."

-Peggy Orenstein, Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater

Cover of Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle by Clare Hunter

9. Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle

By: Clare Hunter

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A globe-spanning history of sewing, embroidery, and the people who have used a needle and thread to… read more

Similar categories in Clare Hunter's Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle book and Sofi Thanhauser's Worn: A People's History of Clothing

  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • fashion
  • audiobook
"Sewing is a way to mark our existence on cloth: patterning our place in the world, voicing our identity, sharing something of ourselves with others and leaving the indelible evidence of our presence …"

-Clare Hunter, Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle

Cover of Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There by Tali Sharot

10. Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There

By: Tali Sharot

3.69

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Thinking Fast and Slow and The Power of Habit , a groundbreaking new study of how disru… read more

Similar categories in Tali Sharot's Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There book and Sofi Thanhauser's Worn: A People's History of Clothing

  • science
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
Cover of Worn: A People's History of Clothing by Sofi Thanhauser

11. Worn: A People's History of Clothing

By: Sofi Thanhauser

4.17

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping and captivatingly told history of clothing and the stuff it's made of--an unparalleled d… read more

Similar categories in Sofi Thanhauser's Worn: A People's History of Clothing book and Sofi Thanhauser's Worn: A People's History of Clothing

  • cultural
  • science
  • history
  • historical
  • sociology
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • fashion
  • microhistory
  • audiobook
Cover of Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World by Victoria Finlay

12. Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World

By: Victoria Finlay

4.27

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A magnificent work of original research, unwinding history through cloth –how we make it, use it an… read more

Similar categories in Victoria Finlay's Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World book and Sofi Thanhauser's Worn: A People's History of Clothing

  • fashion
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History by Kassia St. Clair

13. The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History

By: Kassia St. Clair

4.11

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From colorful 30,000-year-old threads found on the floor of a Georgian cave to the Indian calicoes … read more

Similar categories in Kassia St. Clair's The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History book and Sofi Thanhauser's Worn: A People's History of Clothing

  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • fashion
  • microhistory
  • audiobook
"Canopy, an environmental organisation, believes that 120 million trees are felled each year to produce rayon and other cellulose-based materials."

-Kassia St. Clair, The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History

Cover of Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History by Richard Thompson Ford

14. Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History

By: Richard Thompson Ford

3.85

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A “sharp and entertaining” (The Wall Street Journal) exploration of fashion through the ages that a… read more

Similar categories in Richard Thompson Ford's Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History book and Sofi Thanhauser's Worn: A People's History of Clothing

  • cultural
  • history
  • historical
  • sociology
  • nonfiction
  • fashion
  • microhistory
  • audiobook
Cover of Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close by Hannah  Carlson

15. Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close

By: Hannah Carlson

3.62

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

“Who knew the humble pocket could hold so much history? In this enthralling and always surprising a… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Carlson's Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close book and Sofi Thanhauser's Worn: A People's History of Clothing

  • cultural
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • fashion
  • microhistory
  • audiobook
Cover of The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes by Kate Strasdin

16. The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes

By: Kate Strasdin

4.02

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The hidden fabric of a Victorian woman's life - from family and friends to industry and Empire - to… read more

Similar categories in Kate Strasdin's The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes book and Sofi Thanhauser's Worn: A People's History of Clothing

  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • fashion
  • audiobook
Cover of Eyeliner: A Cultural History by Zahra Hankir

17. Eyeliner: A Cultural History

By: Zahra Hankir

3.80

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed editor of Our Women on the Ground comes a dazzling exploration of the intersecti… read more

Similar categories in Zahra Hankir's Eyeliner: A Cultural History book and Sofi Thanhauser's Worn: A People's History of Clothing

  • cultural
  • history
  • historical
  • sociology
  • nonfiction
  • fashion
  • microhistory
  • audiobook
Cover of The Lost Flock: Rare Wool, Wild Isles and One Woman’s Journey to Save Scotland’s Original Sheep by Jane        Cooper

18. The Lost Flock: Rare Wool, Wild Isles and One Woman’s Journey to Save Scotland’s Original Sheep

By: Jane Cooper

4.05

Format: 219 pages, Kindle Edition

The Lost Flock is the story of the remarkable and rare little horned sheep, known as Orkney Boreray… read more

Similar categories in Jane Cooper's The Lost Flock: Rare Wool, Wild Isles and One Woman’s Journey to Save Scotland’s Original Sheep book and Sofi Thanhauser's Worn: A People's History of Clothing

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change by W. David Marx

19. Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change

By: W. David Marx

3.87

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

The book lays out how individuals in pursuit of status trigger the cultural mechanisms behind taste… read more

Similar categories in W. David Marx's Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change book and Sofi Thanhauser's Worn: A People's History of Clothing

  • cultural
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • fashion
  • sociology
  • audiobook
Cover of Less: Stop Buying So Much Rubbish: How Having Fewer, Better Things Can Make Us Happier by Patrick  Grant

20. Less: Stop Buying So Much Rubbish: How Having Fewer, Better Things Can Make Us Happier

By: Patrick Grant

4.37

Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Utterly brilliant. We all need to read this book’ CLAUDIA WINKLEMAN 'Patrick’s book is fascinat… read more

Similar categories in Patrick Grant's Less: Stop Buying So Much Rubbish: How Having Fewer, Better Things Can Make Us Happier book and Sofi Thanhauser's Worn: A People's History of Clothing

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion by Tansy E. Hoskins

21. The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion

By: Tansy E. Hoskins

4.14

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

The award-winning classic on why we must revolutionise the fashion industry *Selected by Emma Wats… read more

Similar categories in Tansy E. Hoskins's The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion book and Sofi Thanhauser's Worn: A People's History of Clothing

  • cultural
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • fashion
  • audiobook

18 must-read audiobook books like Worn: A People's History of Clothing by Sofi Thanhauser

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To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick--and How We Can Fight Back

Alden Wicker

4.32

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All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess

Becca Rothfeld

3.76

Transform Your Habits

Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

Naomi Klein

4.22

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The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World

Virginia Postrel

4.17

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The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World

Virginia Postrel

4.17

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Benjamin Myers

4.33

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Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle

Clare Hunter

4.09

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Catherine Hanley

4.20

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