The Material Culture of Women's Accessories: Middle-class Performance, Race Formation and Feminine Display, 1830-1920
This dissertation investigates the cultural meaning ascribed to feminine fashionable objects such as gloves, fans, parasols and vanity sets. I pay particular attention to issues of middle-class formation, the performance of gender, and the materiality of race, empire and colonialism. While these i...
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| Language: | en_ca |
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2007
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1807/26449 |