The Politics of Fashion in Eighteenth-Century America

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4185362The Politics of Fashion in Eighteenth-Century Americahttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-politics-of-fashion-in-eighteenth-century-america-9780807869291/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2600199/08fe5b22-24a8-49ce-b9bb-fd71271ab08c.jpg?v=638384195454500000487513MXNThe University of North Carolina PressInStock/Ebooks/In eighteenth-century America, fashion served as a site of contests over various forms of gendered power. Here, Kate Haulman explores how and why fashion both as a concept and as the changing style of personal adornment linked gender relations, social order, commerce, and political authority during a time when traditional hierarchies were in flux.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 womens power as consumers was expanding. Concerns over gendered power expressed through fashion in dress, Haulman reveals, shaped the revolutionary-era struggles of the 1760s and 1770s, influenced national political debates, and helped to secure the exclusions of the new political order....4121111The Politics of Fashion in Eighteenth-Century America487513https://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-politics-of-fashion-in-eighteenth-century-america-9780807869291/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2600199/08fe5b22-24a8-49ce-b9bb-fd71271ab08c.jpg?v=638384195454500000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20119780807869291_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_In eighteenth-century America, fashion served as a site of contests over various forms of gendered power. Here, Kate Haulman explores how and why fashion--both as a concept and as the changing style of personal adornment--linked gender relations, social order, commerce, and political authority during a time when traditional hierarchies were in flux.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 womens power as consumers was expanding. Concerns over gendered power expressed through fashion in dress, Haulman reveals, shaped the revolutionary-era struggles of the 1760s and 1770s, influenced national political debates, and helped to secure the exclusions of the new political order.(*_*)9780807869291_In eighteenth-century America, fashion served as a site of contests over various forms of gendered power. Here, Kate Haulman explores how and why fashion--both as a concept and as the changing style of personal adornment--linked gender relations, social order, commerce, and political authority during a time when traditional hierarchies were in flux.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 womens power as consumers was expanding. Concerns over gendered power expressed through fashion in dress, Haulman reveals, shaped the revolutionary-era struggles of the 1760s and 1770s, influenced national political debates, and helped to secure the exclusions of the new political order....9780807869291_The University of North Carolina Presslibro_electonico_192fd822-1559-3352-aa98-fc27e9ed99f0_9780807869291;9780807869291_9780807869291Kate HaulmanInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/ingram30-epub-9a4f1e96-ac41-4221-8eaf-a8debdbcdc53.epub2011-08-01T00:00:00+00:00The University of North Carolina Press