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Author:

Haulman, Kate.

Title:

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

Publisher:

University of North Carolina Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

xiv, 290 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Politics and culture--United States--History--18th century.
Fashion--History--United States--History--18th century.
Clothing and dress--History--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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

Series:

Gender and American culture

ISBN:

0807834874 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807834879 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)696942387

LCCN:

2010053995

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)