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The politics of fashion in eighteenth-century America /
In the see-and-be-seen port cities of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Charleston, fashion, a form of power and distinction, was conceptually feminized yet pursued by both men and women across class ranks. Haulman shows that elite men and women in these cities relied on fashion to present their s...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©2011.
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| Colección: | Gender & American culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : that strange, ridic'lous vice
- The many faces of fashion in the early eighteenth century
- Fops and coquettes : gender, sexuality, and status
- Country modes : cultural politics and political resistance
- New duties and old desires on the eve of revolution
- A contest of modes in revolutionary Philadelphia
- Fashion and nation
- Epilogue : political habits and citizenship's corset : the 1790s and beyond.