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The politics of fashion in eighteenth-century America / Kate Haulman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Haulman, Kate.
- Series:
- Gender & American culture.
- Gender and American culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Politics and culture--United States--History--18th century.
- Politics and culture.
- Fashion--Political aspects--United States--History--18th century.
- Fashion.
- Clothing and dress--Political aspects--United States--History--18th century.
- Clothing and dress.
- Symbolism in politics--India--History--18th century.
- Symbolism in politics.
- Nationalism--United States--History--18th century.
- Nationalism.
- United States--Social life and customs--To 1775.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (304 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-9313-460-5
- 979-88-908862-3-1
- 1-4696-0292-X
- 0-8078-6929-5
- OCLC:
- 742361658
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