The politics of fashion in eighteenth-century America [[electronic resource] /] / Kate Haulman
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| Autore: |
Haulman Kate
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| Titolo: |
The politics of fashion in eighteenth-century America [[electronic resource] /] / Kate Haulman
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| Pubblicazione: | Chapel Hill [N.C.], : University of North Carolina Press, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 306.20973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Politics and culture - United States - History - 18th century |
| Fashion - Political aspects - United States - History - 18th century | |
| Clothing and dress - Political aspects - United States - History - 18th century | |
| Symbolism in politics - India - History - 18th century | |
| Nationalism - United States - History - 18th century | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Social life and customs To 1775 |
| Note generali: | Includes index. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | In eighteenth-century America, fashion served as a site of contests over various forms of gendered power. Here, Kate Haulman explores how and why fashion--both as a concept and as the changing style of personal adornment--linked gender relations, social order, commerce, and political authority during a time when traditional hierarchies were in flux. 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The politics of fashion in eighteenth-century America |
| ISBN: | 1-4696-0292-X |
| 0-8078-6929-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910814708903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Gender & American culture.