Behind the seams : Women, fashion, and work in 19th-century France / Susan Hiner.
Hiner, Susan, author.; ProQuest (Firm)
2023
GT871 .H56 2023
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Title Behind the seams : Women, fashion, and work in 19th-century France / Susan Hiner.
Author Hiner, Susan, author.
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 9781350339835
1350339830
9781350339798
9781350339804
9781350339811
9781350339828
DOI https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350339835
Published London : Hart Publishing, 2023.
Distributor London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2023.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (280 pages)
Item Number 10.5040/9781350339835 doi
Call Number GT871 .H56 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification 391.0094409034
Note List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Prologue: Behind the Seams 1. Veiling Women's Work 2. Fashion's Fingers: Immodest Modistes 3. Fashion's Voices: Modistes des Lettres 4. Fashion's Eyes: Painting in the Mirror Epilogue: Midinettes in Motion Bibliography Index
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Cover
Halftitle page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Behind the Seams
1 Veiling Women's Work
Ideological Veils
Fetishizing Commodities
Framing Material Commodities
Women Crafting Agency
2 Fashion's Fingers: Immodest Modistes
A Liminal Figure
The Myth Goes Viral
The Myth Takes the Stage
The Real Modistes of Nineteenth-Century Paris
Demystifying the Modiste
3 Fashion's Voices: "Modistes de Lettres"
From Chroniqueur to Chroniqueuse
J. J.: "La Bonne Amie"

La Vicomtesse de Renneville: "La Reine des chiff ons"61
Madame Emmeline Raymond: "La Bonne Ménagère"107
Talking Commodities
4 Fashion's Eyes: Painting in the Mirror
Family Histories of Art
The Work of Art
The Stealthy Work of the Fashion Plate
Feminized Commodities, Female Communities
Epilogue: Midinettes in Motion
Notes
Works Consulted
Illustrations
Index

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