Sexing la mode : gender, fashion and commercial culture in old regime France /

Jones, Jennifer Michelle.

Sexing la mode : gender, fashion and commercial culture in old regime France / Jennifer M. Jones. - Oxford : Berg, 2004. - xviii, 244 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Examining the changing nature of French fashion culture in the eighteenth century, this book explores the relationship between women and commercial culture. The author looks at gender responses to fashion during the period and how clothing was becoming increasingly conceptualised as feminine or effeminate.


Electronic reproduction.
Oxford :
Berg,
2010.
(Berg fashion library)
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Clothing and dress--History--France--18th century.
Fashion--History--France--18th century.
Sex role--History--France--18th century.
Femininity--History--France--18th century.

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