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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."

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Prologue
1. La Femme comme il (en) faut and the Pursuit of Distinction
2. Unpacking the Corbeille de mariage
3. "Cashmere Fever": Virtue and the Domestication of the Exotic
4. Mademoiselle Ombrelle: Shielding the Fair Sex
5. Fan Fetish: Gender, Nostalgia, and Commodification
6. Between Good Intentions and Ulterior Motives: The Culture of Handbags
Epilogue. The Feminine Accessory
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments

Accessories to Modernity

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      Publisher MT - University of Pennsylvania Press
      Published 7 August 2010
      ISBN-13 9780812242591
      978-0812242591
      ISBN-10 0812242599

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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."

      Table of Contents

      List of Illustrations
      Prologue
      1. La Femme comme il (en) faut and the Pursuit of Distinction
      2. Unpacking the Corbeille de mariage
      3. "Cashmere Fever": Virtue and the Domestication of the Exotic
      4. Mademoiselle Ombrelle: Shielding the Fair Sex
      5. Fan Fetish: Gender, Nostalgia, and Commodification
      6. Between Good Intentions and Ulterior Motives: The Culture of Handbags
      Epilogue. The Feminine Accessory
      Notes
      Bibliography
      Index
      Acknowledgments

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