Haulman, Kate.

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.


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ebrary,
2011.
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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.


United States--Social life and customs--To 1775.


Electronic books.

E163 / .H38 2011eb

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