The politics of fashion in eighteenth-century America
By: by Kate Haulman
Series: Gender and American culture
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780807834879
Subjects: Politics and culture; Social life and customs; Symbolism in politics; Fashion; Clothing and dress; Nationalism; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : that strange, ridic'lous vice; title: The many faces of fashion in the early eighteenth century; title: Fops and coquettes : gender, sexuality, and status; title: Country modes : cultural politics and political resistance; title: New duties and old desires on the eve of revolution; title: A contest of modes in revolutionary Philadelphia; title: Fashion and nation; title: Epilogue : political habits and citizenship's corset : the 1790s and beyond.