Cultures of femininity in modern fashion / Ilya Parkins and Elizabeth M. Sheehan, editors.

Other author Parkins, Ilya.
Other author Sheehan, Elizabeth M.
Format Book
Publication InfoDurham, N.H. : University of New Hampshire Press, ©2011.
Descriptionxi, 243 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.
Subjects
Women's clothing--Social aspects.
Clothing and dress--Social aspects.
Fashion--Social aspects.
Feminism--Social aspects.

SeriesBecoming modern : new nineteenth-century studies
Reading dress series
Becoming modern. Reading dress series. ^A1092422
Contents Introduction : cultures of femininity in modern fashion / Ilya Parkins and Elizabeth M. Sheehan -- Fashioning sapphic architecture : Eileen Gray and Radclyffe Hall / Jasmine Rault -- A domesticated exoticism : fashioning gender in nineteenth-century British tea gowns / Kimberly Wahl -- Smart clothes at low prices : alliances and negotiations in the British interwar secondhand clothing trade / Celia Marshik -- Part II. Fashion and cultural anxiety -- Fear of fashion ; or, how the coquette got her bad name / Ellen Bayuk Rosenman -- The discerning eye : viewing the mid-Victorian "modern" woman / Kara Tennant -- "Housewife or harlot" : art, fashion, and morality in the Paris salon of 1868 / Justine De Young -- "Their uniforms all esthetic and antiseptic" : fashioning modern nursing identity, 1870-1900 / Christina Bates -- The face of fashion : race and fantasy in James VanDerZee's photography and Jessie Fauset's fiction / Elizabeth M. Sheehan -- "More than a garment" : Edna Ferber and the fashioning of transnational identity / Lori Harrison-Kahan.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2011007983
ISBN9781611680010 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN1611680018 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9781611680027 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN1611680026 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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