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

Publication Info.	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2011]
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Description	1 online resource (xiv, 290 pages) : illustrations.
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Series	Gender and American culture
	Gender & American culture.
Bibliography	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.
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Summary	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.
Subject	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.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
	HISTORY -- United States -- Colonial Period (1600-1775)
	Fashion -- Political aspects. (OCoLC)fst00921614
	Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
	Nationalism. (OCoLC)fst01033832
	Politics and culture. (OCoLC)fst01069952
	Symbolism in politics. (OCoLC)fst01140787
	India. (OCoLC)fst01210276
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term	To 1799
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form:	Print version: Haulman, Kate. Politics of fashion in eighteenth-century America. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2011 9780807834879 (DLC) 2010053995 (OCoLC)696942387
ISBN	9780807869291 (electronic bk.)
	0807869295 (electronic bk.)
	9781469602929 (electronic bk.)
	146960292X (electronic bk.)

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