Susan Hiner

Accessories to Modernity

Fashion and the Feminine in Nineteenth-Century France

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Produktbeschreibung

Examining fashion accessories in both novels and fashion discourses, Susan Hiner reframes the feminine accessory as a signifier of modernity and makes an important claim about the "accessory" status of women in nineteenth-century France: as both commodities and consumers, women were in fact "accessories to modernity."

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Susan Hiner is Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Vassar College.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 156mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 625g
• ISBN-13: 9780812242591
• ISBN-10: 0812242599
• Artikelnr.: 28523017

Autorenporträt

Susan Hiner

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Prologue
1. La Femme comme il (en) faut and the Pursuit of Distinction
2. Unpacking the Corbeille de mariage
3. "Cashmere Fever": Virtue and the Domestication of the Exotic
4. Mademoiselle Ombrelle: Shielding the Fair Sex
5. Fan Fetish: Gender, Nostalgia, and Commodification
6. Between Good Intentions and Ulterior Motives: The Culture of Handbags
Epilogue. The Feminine Accessory
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments