The politics of fashion in eighteenth-century America [electronic resource] / Kate Haulman.
Series: Gender & American culturePublication details: Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, 2011.Description: xiv, 290 p. : ill., portsISBN:- 9780807834879 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780807869291 (e-book)
- 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
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- E163 .H38 2011eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.