Appropriate[ing] dress : women's rhetorical style in nineteenth-century America / Carol Mattingly.

Author
Mattingly, Carol, 1945- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©2002.
Description
xv, 175 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

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    Subject(s)
    Series
    Studies in rhetorics and feminisms [More in this series]
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-167) and index.
    Contents
    • Introduction: Fabricated Gender
    • Friendly Dress: A Disciplined Use
    • Blooming Celebrity: The Flowering of a National Ethos
    • Restraining Women's Rhetoric: Backlash Against the Reform Dress
    • The Language of Passing and Desire: The Rhetoric of Cross-Dressing
    • [Re]Fashioning a Proper Image by Dressing the Part
    • Conclusion: Dress and Body as Spectacle.
    Other title(s)
    Appropriating dress
    ISBN
    • 0809324288 ((alk. paper))
    • 9780809324286 ((alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2001034169
    OCLC
    46976558
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