Cultures of femininity in modern fashion
By: Ilya Parkins and Elizabeth M. Sheehan, editors
Series: Becoming modern : new nineteenth-century studies; Reading dress series; Becoming modern
Publisher: University of New Hampshire Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Durham, N.H
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9781611680010; 9781611680027
Subjects: Social aspects; Women's clothing; Fashion; Clothing and dress; Feminism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : cultures of femininity in modern fashion / Ilya Parkins and Elizabeth M. Sheehan; title: Part I. Fashion and relationships among modern women; title: ch. 1. Fashioning sapphic architecture : Eileen Gray and Radclyffe Hall / Jasmine Rault; title: ch. 2. A domesticated exoticism : fashioning gender in nineteenth-century British tea gowns / Kimberly Wahl; title: ch. 3. Smart clothes at low prices : alliances and negotiations in the British interwar secondhand clothing trade / Celia Marshik; title: Part II. Fashion and cultural anxiety; title: ch. 4. Fear of fashion ; or, how the coquetter got her bad name / Ellen Bayuk Rosenman; title: ch. 5. The discerning eye : viewing the mid-Victorian "modern" woman / Kara Tennant; title: ch. 6. "Housewife or harlot" : art, fashion, and morality in the Paris salon of 1868 / Justine De Young; title: Part III. Fashion and the materiality of gender; title: ch. 7. "Their uniforms all esthetic and antiseptic" : fashioning modern nursing identity, 1870-1900 / Christina Bates; title: ch. 8. The face of fashion : race and fantasy in James VanDerZee's photography and Jessie Fauset's fiction / Elizabeth M. Sheehan; title: ch. 9. "More than a garment" : Edna Ferber and the fashioning of transnational identity / Lori Harrison-Kahan.