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Luxury and gender in European towns, 1700-1914, edited by Deborah Simonton, Marjo Kaartinen, and Anne Montenach

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"This book conceives the role of the modern town as a crucial place for material and cultural circulations of luxury. It concentrates on a critical period of historical change, the long eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, that was marked by the passage from a society of scarcity to one of expenditure and accumulation, from ranks and orders to greater social mobility, from traditional aristocratic luxury to a new bourgeois and even democratic form of luxury. This volume recognizes the notion that luxury operated as a mechanism of social separation, but also that all classes aspired to engage in consumption at some level, thus extending the idea of what constituted luxury and blurring the boundaries of class and status, often in unsettling ways. It moves beyond the moral aspects of luxury and the luxury debates to analyze how the production, distribution, purchase or display of luxury goods could participate in the creation of autonomous selves and thus challenge gender roles"--
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eng
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pages cm.
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  • Luxury, Gender and the Urban Experience / Marjo Kaartinen, Anne Montenach and Deborah Simonton
  • Part I. Markets and Opportunities
  • Milliners and Marchandes de Modes : Gender, Creativity and Skill in the Workplace / Deborah Simonton
  • Gender and Luxury in Eighteenth-Century Grenoble : From Legal Exchanges to Shadow Economy / Anne Montenach
  • Women in the Late-Eighteenth-Century-Copenhagen Luxury Trades / Carol Gold
  • Feminisation and the Luxury of Visual Art in London's West End, 1860-1890 / Kemille Moore
  • Part II. Metropole and Province
  • Men, Women and the Supply of Luxury Goods in Eighteenth-Century England : The Purchasing Patterns of Edward and Mary Leigh / Jon Stobart and Mark Rothery
  • The Luxury Shopping Experience of the Swedish Aristocracy in Eighteenth-Century Paris / Johanna Ilmakunnas
  • Gender and Luxury in Eighteenth-Century Catalonia : Town and Countryside / Belén Moreno Claverías
  • Gender, Craftwork and the Exotic in International Exhibitions, c. 1880-1910 / Stana Nenadic
  • Part III. Class and Status
  • A Feminine Luxury in Paris : Marie-Fortunée d'Este, Princesse de Conti (1731-1803) / Aurélie Chatenet-Calyste
  • Favourites of Fortune : The Luxury Consumption of the Hackmans of Vyborg, 1790-1825 / Ulla Ijäs
  • The "Díszmagyar" as Representation in the Andrássy Family in Late Nineteenth-Century Budapest / Zsuzsa Sidó
  • The Luxury They Could Not Afford? : Households of Workers in the Industrial Town of Drammen, Norway c. 1900 / Hanne Marie Johansen
  • Afterword: Gender, Luxury and Towns Revisited / Anne Montenach, Marjo Kaartinen and Deborah Simonton
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9781138803169
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Luxury and gender in European towns, 1700-1914
Title
Luxury and gender in European towns, 1700-1914
Statement of responsibility
edited by Deborah Simonton, Marjo Kaartinen, and Anne Montenach
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Editor
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Language
eng
Summary
"This book conceives the role of the modern town as a crucial place for material and cultural circulations of luxury. It concentrates on a critical period of historical change, the long eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, that was marked by the passage from a society of scarcity to one of expenditure and accumulation, from ranks and orders to greater social mobility, from traditional aristocratic luxury to a new bourgeois and even democratic form of luxury. This volume recognizes the notion that luxury operated as a mechanism of social separation, but also that all classes aspired to engage in consumption at some level, thus extending the idea of what constituted luxury and blurring the boundaries of class and status, often in unsettling ways. It moves beyond the moral aspects of luxury and the luxury debates to analyze how the production, distribution, purchase or display of luxury goods could participate in the creation of autonomous selves and thus challenge gender roles"--
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1948-
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Simonton, Deborah
Dewey number
306.3094
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
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bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
1964-
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
  • Kaartinen, Marjo
  • Montenach, Anne
Series statement
Routledge studies in cultural history
Series volume
32
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  • Luxury
  • Luxury
  • City and town life
  • Sex role
  • Social classes
  • Luxury goods industry
  • Europe
  • Europe
  • Europe
  • Europe
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Luxury and gender in European towns, 1700-1914, edited by Deborah Simonton, Marjo Kaartinen, and Anne Montenach
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Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
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volume
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rdacarrier.
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text
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rdacontent.
Contents
Luxury, Gender and the Urban Experience / Marjo Kaartinen, Anne Montenach and Deborah Simonton -- Part I. Markets and Opportunities -- Milliners and Marchandes de Modes : Gender, Creativity and Skill in the Workplace / Deborah Simonton -- Gender and Luxury in Eighteenth-Century Grenoble : From Legal Exchanges to Shadow Economy / Anne Montenach -- Women in the Late-Eighteenth-Century-Copenhagen Luxury Trades / Carol Gold -- Feminisation and the Luxury of Visual Art in London's West End, 1860-1890 / Kemille Moore -- Part II. Metropole and Province -- Men, Women and the Supply of Luxury Goods in Eighteenth-Century England : The Purchasing Patterns of Edward and Mary Leigh / Jon Stobart and Mark Rothery -- The Luxury Shopping Experience of the Swedish Aristocracy in Eighteenth-Century Paris / Johanna Ilmakunnas -- Gender and Luxury in Eighteenth-Century Catalonia : Town and Countryside / Belén Moreno Claverías -- Gender, Craftwork and the Exotic in International Exhibitions, c. 1880-1910 / Stana Nenadic -- Part III. Class and Status -- A Feminine Luxury in Paris : Marie-Fortunée d'Este, Princesse de Conti (1731-1803) / Aurélie Chatenet-Calyste -- Favourites of Fortune : The Luxury Consumption of the Hackmans of Vyborg, 1790-1825 / Ulla Ijäs -- The "Díszmagyar" as Representation in the Andrássy Family in Late Nineteenth-Century Budapest / Zsuzsa Sidó -- The Luxury They Could Not Afford? : Households of Workers in the Industrial Town of Drammen, Norway c. 1900 / Hanne Marie Johansen -- Afterword: Gender, Luxury and Towns Revisited / Anne Montenach, Marjo Kaartinen and Deborah Simonton
Control code
FIEb17593979
Extent
pages cm.
Isbn
9781138803169
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia.
Media type code
  • n
System control number
  • 18179075
  • (OCoLC)1063460276
Label
Luxury and gender in European towns, 1700-1914, edited by Deborah Simonton, Marjo Kaartinen, and Anne Montenach
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier.
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent.
Contents
Luxury, Gender and the Urban Experience / Marjo Kaartinen, Anne Montenach and Deborah Simonton -- Part I. Markets and Opportunities -- Milliners and Marchandes de Modes : Gender, Creativity and Skill in the Workplace / Deborah Simonton -- Gender and Luxury in Eighteenth-Century Grenoble : From Legal Exchanges to Shadow Economy / Anne Montenach -- Women in the Late-Eighteenth-Century-Copenhagen Luxury Trades / Carol Gold -- Feminisation and the Luxury of Visual Art in London's West End, 1860-1890 / Kemille Moore -- Part II. Metropole and Province -- Men, Women and the Supply of Luxury Goods in Eighteenth-Century England : The Purchasing Patterns of Edward and Mary Leigh / Jon Stobart and Mark Rothery -- The Luxury Shopping Experience of the Swedish Aristocracy in Eighteenth-Century Paris / Johanna Ilmakunnas -- Gender and Luxury in Eighteenth-Century Catalonia : Town and Countryside / Belén Moreno Claverías -- Gender, Craftwork and the Exotic in International Exhibitions, c. 1880-1910 / Stana Nenadic -- Part III. Class and Status -- A Feminine Luxury in Paris : Marie-Fortunée d'Este, Princesse de Conti (1731-1803) / Aurélie Chatenet-Calyste -- Favourites of Fortune : The Luxury Consumption of the Hackmans of Vyborg, 1790-1825 / Ulla Ijäs -- The "Díszmagyar" as Representation in the Andrássy Family in Late Nineteenth-Century Budapest / Zsuzsa Sidó -- The Luxury They Could Not Afford? : Households of Workers in the Industrial Town of Drammen, Norway c. 1900 / Hanne Marie Johansen -- Afterword: Gender, Luxury and Towns Revisited / Anne Montenach, Marjo Kaartinen and Deborah Simonton
Control code
FIEb17593979
Extent
pages cm.
Isbn
9781138803169
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia.
Media type code
  • n
System control number
  • 18179075
  • (OCoLC)1063460276

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