The politics of fashion in eighteenth-century America

The politics of fashion in eighteenth-century America

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Haulman, Kate
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, 2011.
Series:Gender & American culture.
Subjects:
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.
United States > Social life and customs > To 1775.
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Table of 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.

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