Sexing La Mode: Gender, Fashion and Commercial Culture in Old Regime France

by Jennifer Jones

Overview

Jones examines men's and women's relation to fashion in eighteenth-century France and shows how shopping and fashion developed as specifically feminine associations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781859738306
Publisher:	Berg Publishers
Publication date:	07/01/2004
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.62(d)

About the Author

Jennifer M. Jones is Graduate Director of Women's Studies and Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University

Table of Contents

Prologue: The Morning Toilette * Introduction * Part I: La Cour: Absolutism and Appearance in the Court of Louis XIV * Courting La Mode and Costuming the French * Fashion Culture in Print * Objects of Desire, Subjects of the King * Part II: La Ville: Clothing and Consumption in an Enlightened Society of Taste * "A Natural Right to Dress Women" * The Agreeable Art of Clothing * Coquettes and Grisettes * Selling La Mode * Conclusion * Epilogue: From the Absolutist Gaze to the Republican Look