The politics of fashion in eighteenth-century America
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The politics of fashion in eighteenth-century America
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The work The politics of fashion in eighteenth-century America represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
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- The politics of fashion in eighteenth-century America
- Statement of responsibility
- Kate Haulman
- Subject
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- Fashion -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 18th century
- Nationalism -- United States -- History -- 18th century
- Politics and culture -- United States -- History -- 18th century
- Symbolism in politics -- India -- History -- 18th century
- United States -- Social life and customs -- To 1775
- Clothing and dress -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 18th century
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- Cataloging source
- CaPaEBR
- Dewey number
- 306.20973
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- portraits
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- E163
- LC item number
- .H38 2011eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
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- bibliography
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