Hilary (Cunningham) Scharper

Hilary (Cunningham) Scharper is a cultural anthropologist and writer. She received her doctorate from Yale University in anthropology and currently teaches at the University of Toronto. As an anthropologist, she brings a keen sense of the “everyday” world of “ordinary” people into her creative work.

In Dream Dresses she explores the social, cultural and imaginative worlds of women in poignant stories that probe the “hidden transcripts” of how the dress and dressing come to be linked with desire and hope.

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