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Cultures of Femininity in Modern Fashion
An interdisciplinary collection illuminating how fashion shaped concepts and practices of femininity and modernity.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Hanover :
University of New Hampshire Press,
2012.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : cultures of femininity in modern fashion / Ilya Parkins and Elizabeth M. Sheehan
- Part I. Fashion and relationships among modern women
- ch. 1. Fashioning sapphic architecture : Eileen Gray and Radclyffe Hall / Jasmine Rault
- ch. 2. A domesticated exoticism : fashioning gender in nineteenth-century British tea gowns / Kimberly Wahl
- ch. 3. Smart clothes at low prices : alliances and negotiations in the British interwar secondhand clothing trade / Celia Marshik
- Part II. Fashion and cultural anxiety
- ch. 4. Fear of fashion ; or, how the coquetter got her bad name / Ellen Bayuk Rosenman
- ch. 5. The discerning eye : viewing the mid-Victorian "modern" woman / Kara Tennant
- ch. 6. "Housewife or harlot" : art, fashion, and morality in the Paris salon of 1868 / Justine De Young
- Part III. Fashion and the materiality of gender
- ch. 7. "Their uniforms all esthetic and antiseptic" : fashioning modern nursing identity, 1870-1900 / Christina Bates
- ch. 8. The face of fashion : race and fantasy in James VanDerZee's photography and Jessie Fauset's fiction / Elizabeth M. Sheehan
- ch. 9. "More than a garment" : Edna Ferber and the fashioning of transnational identity / Lori Harrison-Kahan.