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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.

Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Crowston, Clare Haru, 1968- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2001.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.