ISBN:
1611680018
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1611680026
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9781611680010
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9781611680027
Language:
English
Pages:
XI, 243 S., [4] Bl.
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Ill.
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27 cm
Series Statement:
Becoming modern : new nineteenth-century studies
Series Statement:
Reading dress series
DDC:
391/.2
Keywords:
Women's clothing Social aspects
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Clothing and dress Social aspects
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Fashion Social aspects
;
Feminism Social aspects
;
Großbritannien
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Mode
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Geschichte
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Introduction : cultures of femininity in modern fashion
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Part I. Fashion and relationships among modern women ; ch. 1. Fashioning sapphic architecture : Eileen Gray and Radclyffe Hall
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ch. 2. A domesticated exoticism : fashioning gender in nineteenth-century British tea gowns
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ch. 3. Smart clothes at low prices : alliances and negotiations in the British interwar secondhand clothing trade
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Part II. Fashion and cultural anxiety ; ch. 4. Fear of fashion ; or, how the coquetter got her bad name
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ch. 5. The discerning eye : viewing the mid-Victorian "modern" woman
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ch. 6. "Housewife or harlot" : art, fashion, and morality in the Paris salon of 1868
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Part III. Fashion and the materiality of gender ; ch. 7. "Their uniforms all esthetic and antiseptic" : fashioning modern nursing identity, 1870-1900
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ch. 8. The face of fashion : race and fantasy in James VanDerZee's photography and Jessie Fauset's fiction
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ch. 9. "More than a garment" : Edna Ferber and the fashioning of transnational identity
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