Pantaloons & power : a nineteenth-century dress reform in the United States / / Gayle V. Fischer
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| Autore: |
Fischer Gayle V
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| Titolo: |
Pantaloons & power : a nineteenth-century dress reform in the United States / / Gayle V. Fischer
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| Pubblicazione: | Kent, Ohio : , : Kent State University Press, , 2001 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (276 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 391/.2/097309034 |
| Soggetto topico: | Clothing and dress - United States - History - 19th century |
| Women's rights - United States - History | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-254) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | ""Cover""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: Who Wears the Pants?""; ""1. Perfecting America: Antebellum Reform, Fashion, and Antifashion""; ""2. The First Dress Reformers: New Harmony, Indiana, 1824-1827""; ""3. Pantaloons in Private: Health and Religious Dress Reform before Freedom Dresses""; ""4. Pantaloons in Public: Woman's Rights and Freedom Dresses""; ""5. Out of the Closet: Health and Religious Dress Reform after Freedom Dresses""; ""6. ""I'm Coming Out as a Bloomer"": Eccentric and Independent Dress Reformers""; ""7. What Happened to Dress Reform?"" |
| ""Epilogue: Women Wear the Pants"" ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index"" | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | By the early nineteenth century clear definitions had developed regarding how American women and men were supposed to appear in public and how they were meant to lead their lives. As men's style of dress moved from the ornate to the moderate, women's fashions continued to be decorative and physically restrictive. In Pantaloons and Power, Gayle V. Fischer depicts how the reformers' denouncement of conventional dress highlighted the role of clothing in the struggle of power relations between the sexes. Wearing pantaloons was considered a subversive act and was often met with social ostracism. This carefully researched interdisciplinary study successfully combines the fields of costume history, women's history, material culture, and social history to tell the story of one highly charged dress reform and its resonance in nineteenth-century society. |
| Altri titoli varianti: | Pantaloons and power : a 19th-century dress reform in the United States |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Pantaloons & power |
| ISBN: | 1-61277-267-6 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910972495803321 |
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