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The freedom to smoke : tobacco consumption and identity /

In the late Victorian era, smoking was a male habit and tobacco was consumed mostly in pipes and cigars. By the mid-twentieth century, advertising and movies had not only made it acceptable for women to smoke but smoking had become a potent symbol of their emancipation. From mass cigarette productio...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rudy, Jarrett, 1970-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2005.
Colección:Studies on the History of Quebec/Études d'histoire du Québec.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1 Separating Spheres
  • 2 Bourgeois Connoisseurship and the Cigar
  • 3 Confiicts in Connoisseurship: Debasing le tabac canadien
  • 4 Unmaking Manly Smokes
  • 5 Mass Consumption and the Undermining of Bourgeois Notions of Smoking
  • 6 A Ritual Transformed: Respectable Women Smokers
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • Q
  • R
  • S
  • T
  • U
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