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The politics of fashion in eighteenth-century America / Kate Haulman

Haulman, Kate [Verfasser]

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2011

Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.

1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 290 pages) : Illustrations

Gender and American culture

Includes bibliographical references and index

978-0-8078-6929-1 ; 0-8078-6929-5 ; 978-1-4696-0292-9 ; 1-4696-0292-X ; 978-0-8078-3487-9

 

USA  Mode  Politik  Sozialstatus  Geschlechterbeziehung  USA  Mode  Politik  Sozialstatus  Geschlechterverhältnis  Geschichte 1700-1800 

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.