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Title:
The politics of fashion in eighteenth-century America
Author:
Haulman, Kate.
ISBN:
9780807869291
9781469602929
Publication Information:
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2011.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xiv, 290 pages) : illustrations.
Series:
Gender and American culture
Gender & American culture.
Abstract:
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 and women in these cities relied on fashion to present their status but also attempted to undercut its ability to do so for others. Disdain for others' fashionability was a means of safeguarding social position in cities where the modes of dress were particularly fluid and a way to maintain gender hierarchy in a world in which women's power as consumers was ex.
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Electronic Access:
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9780807869291_haulmanCopies:
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