Fabricating Women : The Seamstresses of Old Regime France, 1675-1791 /

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Crowston, Clare Haru, 1968- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2001.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Gilden.
Naaisters.
Kleermakerijen.
Schneiderin
Women tailors.
Women in guilds.
Women dressmakers.
Sexual division of labor.
Clothing trade.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
Femmes dans les corporations > France > Histoire.
Couturieres > France > Histoire.
Tailleuses (Habillement) > France > Histoire.
Clothing trade > France > History.
Sexual division of labor > France > History.
Women in guilds > France > History.
Women dressmakers > France > History.
Women tailors > France > History.
Frankreich
France.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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