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245 10 a| Pantaloons and Powerh| [electronic resource]:b| Nineteenth-Century Dress Reform in the United States;

260 a| Kent : b| Kent State University Press;

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520 8 a| Annotationb| "By the early nineteenth century clear definitions had developed regarding how American women and men were supposed to appear in public and how they were meant to lead their lives. As men's style of dress moved from the ornate to the moderate, women's fashions continued to be decorative and physically restrictive. This visible separation of the sexes was paralleled in other arenas - social, cultural, and religious. Some women defied this convention and cut their skirts short, abandoned their corset, and put on trousers." "In Pantaloons and Power Gayle V. Fischer depicts how the reformers' denouncement of conventional dress highlighted the role of clothing in the struggle of power relations between the sexes. Wearing pantaloons was considered a subversive act and was often met with social ostracism. Fischer contends that while it was not the goal of many reformers to alter gender relations, as women adopted pantaloons the perception of male and female power relationships blurred, and the boundaries of social roles for women began to shift." "This carefully researched interdisciplinary study successfully combines the fields of costume history, women's history, material culture, and social history to tell the story of one highly charged dress reform and its resonance in nineteenth-century society."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved;

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Pantaloons and Power Nineteenth-Century Dress Reform in the United States

Author/creator	Fischer, Gayle V. Author
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	Kent : Kent State University Press
Description	280 p. ill 24.000 x 016.000 cm.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects	Costume--United States. Women's Rights

Summary	Annotation "By the early nineteenth century clear definitions had developed regarding how American women and men were supposed to appear in public and how they were meant to lead their lives. As men's style of dress moved from the ornate to the moderate, women's fashions continued to be decorative and physically restrictive. This visible separation of the sexes was paralleled in other arenas - social, cultural, and religious. Some women defied this convention and cut their skirts short, abandoned their corset, and put on trousers." "In Pantaloons and Power Gayle V. Fischer depicts how the reformers' denouncement of conventional dress highlighted the role of clothing in the struggle of power relations between the sexes. Wearing pantaloons was considered a subversive act and was often met with social ostracism. Fischer contends that while it was not the goal of many reformers to alter gender relations, as women adopted pantaloons the perception of male and female power relationships blurred, and the boundaries of social roles for women began to shift." "This carefully researched interdisciplinary study successfully combines the fields of costume history, women's history, material culture, and social history to tell the story of one highly charged dress reform and its resonance in nineteenth-century society."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	00010253
ISBN	9780873386821
ISBN	0873386825 (Trade Paper) Active Record
Standard identifier#	9780873386821
Stock number	00014503

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