Search Results - "Fashion"

Dressing Modern Frenchwomen : Marketing Haute Couture, 1919–1939 / by Stewart, Mary Lynn, 1945-

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman : New Texts, New Contexts /

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Anthems, Sonnets, and Chants : Recovering the African American Poetry of the 1930s / by Woodson, Jon

Table of Contents: “…The crash of 1929 and the Great Depression : three long poems -- Existential crisis : the sonnet and self-fashioning in the Black poetry of the 1930s -- "Race war" : African American poetry on the Italo-Ethiopian war -- Concluding note.…”
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Everyday Life under Communism and After : Lifestyle and Consumption in Hungary, 1945–2000 / by Valuch, Tibor

Table of Contents: “….: financial circumstances, prices, wages, and income inequalities in everyday life -- Chapter Three From plentiful privation to a consumer society: the changes and characteristics of consumer consumption -- Chapter Four This is how we lived: housing conditions, usage of living space, and interior decoration -- Chapter Five "Well-dressed and fashionable": changes in clothing styles, habits, and fashion -- Chapter Six "We ate, we drank, we filled our stomachs": nutrition, eating, and dietary habits -- Conclusions -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Postmodern Spiritual Practices : The Construction of the Subject and the Reception of Plato in Lacan, Derrida, and Foucault / by Miller, Paul Allen, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: remaking the soul : antiquity, postmodernism, and genealogies of the self -- The modernist revolt : history, politics, and allegory, or, Classicism in occupied France -- Historicizing transcendence : antigone, the good, and the ethics of psychoanalysis -- Lacan, the Symposium, and transference -- Writing the subject : Derrida asks Plato to take a letter -- The art of self-fashioning, or, Foucault on the Alcibiades : caring for the self and others -- Searching for a usable past.…”
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Across the Waves : How the United States and France Shaped the International Age of Radio / by Vaillant, Derek

Table of Contents: “…Airwaves5 The Air of Paris: Womenâ#x80;#x99;s Talk Radio, Gender, and the Art of Self-Fashioning -- 6 The Drama of Broadcast History after May 1968 -- Afterword: Radios at the Heart of Nations -- Appendix: U.S.â#x80;#x93;French Radio Time Line -- Notes -- Selected Resources…”
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