The politics of fashion in eighteenth-century America / Kate Haulman.
Material type: TextSeries: Gender & American culturePublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2011.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 290 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
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- online resource
- 9780807869291
- 0807869295
- 9781469602929
- 146960292X
- Politics and culture -- United States -- History -- 18th century
- Fashion -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 18th century
- Clothing and dress -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 18th century
- Symbolism in politics -- India -- History -- 18th century
- Nationalism -- United States -- History -- 18th century
- United States -- Social life and customs -- To 1775
- Politique et culture -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 18e siècle
- Symbolisme en politique -- Inde -- Histoire -- 18e siècle
- Nationalisme -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 18e siècle
- États-Unis -- Mœurs et coutumes -- Jusqu'à 1775
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture
- HISTORY -- United States -- Colonial Period (1600-1775)
- Fashion -- Political aspects
- Manners and customs
- Nationalism
- Politics and culture
- Symbolism in politics
- India
- United States
- To 1799
- 306.20973 22
- E163 .H38 2011eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : that strange, ridic'lous vice -- The many faces of fashion in the early eighteenth century -- Fops and coquettes : gender, sexuality, and status -- Country modes : cultural politics and political resistance -- New duties and old desires on the eve of revolution -- A contest of modes in revolutionary Philadelphia -- Fashion and nation -- Epilogue : political habits and citizenship's corset : the 1790s and beyond.
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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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