Fabricating women : the seamstresses of Old Regime France, 1675-1791 /
A study of the seamstresses of late 17th and 18th-century France, who developed a quintessentially feminine occupation that became a major factor in the urban economy.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham, NC :
Duke University Press,
2001.
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Colección: | Duke backfile
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Seamstresses and the culture of clothing in Old Regime France
- From mending to modes: trade hierarchies and the labor market
- Tools, techniques, and commercial practices
- The royal government, guilds, and the seamstresses of Paris, Normandy, and Provence
- The tailors and the seamstresses: corporate privilege, gender, and the law
- Women's corporate self-government: the administration of the Parisian Seamstresses' Guild
- Career paths in the seamstresses' trade: from apprenticeship to mistress-ship
- Marriage, fortune and family: the world of the mistress seamstress
- Making the new century: the seamstresses, fin et suite.