The politics of fashion in eighteenth-century America [electronic resource] /
Kate Haulman.
- Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, 2011.
- xiv, 290 p. : ill., ports.
- Gender and American culture .
- Gender & American culture. .
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.
Politics and culture--History--United States--18th century. Fashion--Political aspects--History--United States--18th century. Clothing and dress--Political aspects--History--United States--18th century. Symbolism in politics--History--India--18th century. Nationalism--History--United States--18th century.