Accessories to modernity: fashion and the feminine in nineteenth-century france
Auteur :
Hiner, Susan
Éditeur :
University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN :
9780812242591
Date de publication :
8 juil. 2010
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Format :
Paper over boards
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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."