ISBN:
9780807869291
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (304 pages)
Series Statement:
Gender and American Culture
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.20973
Keywords:
Politics and culture -- United States -- History -- 18th century
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Fashion -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 18th century
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Clothing and dress -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 18th century
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Symbolism in politics -- India -- History -- 18th century
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Nationalism -- United States -- History -- 18th century
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United States -- Social life and customs -- To 1775
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Clothing and dress ; Political aspects ; United States ; History ; 18th century
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Fashion ; Political aspects ; United States ; History ; 18th century
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Nationalism ; United States ; History ; 18th century
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Politics and culture ; United States ; History ; 18th century
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Symbolism in politics ; India ; History ; 18th century
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United States ; Social life and customs ; To 1775
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Abstract:
In eighteenth-century America, fashion served as a site of contests over various forms of gendered power. Here, Kate Haulman explores how and why fashion--both as a concept and as the changing style of personal adornment--linked gender relations, social order, commerce, and political authority during a time when traditional hierarchies were in flux. 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 expanding. Concerns over gendered power expressed through fashion in dress, Haulman reveals, shaped the revolutionary-era struggles of the 1760s and 1770s, influenced national political debates, and helped to secure the exclusions of the new political order.
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION: That Strange, Ridic'lous Vice -- ONE: The Many Faces of Fashion in the Early Eighteenth Century -- TWO: Fops and Coquettes: Gender, Sexuality, and Status -- THREE: Country Modes: Cultural Politics and Political Resistance -- FOUR: New Duties and Old Desires on the Eve of Revolution -- FIVE: A Contest of Modes in Revolutionary Philadelphia -- SIX: Fashion and Nation -- EPILOGUE: Political Habits and Citizenship's Corset: The 1790s and Beyond -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
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