Luxury and gender in European towns, 1700-1914

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The work Luxury and gender in European towns, 1700-1914 represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in European University Institute Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Luxury and gender in European towns, 1700-1914

Statement of responsibility

edited by Deborah Simonton, Marjo Kaartinen, and Anne Montenach

Creator

• Simonton, Deborah, 1948-

Contributor

• Montenach, Anne
• Kaartinen, Marjo, 1964-

Editor

• Kaartinen, Marjo, 1964-
• Montenach, Anne
• Simonton, Deborah, 1948-

Subject

• Europe -- Economic conditions -- 1789-1900
• Europe -- Economic conditions -- 18th century
• Europe -- Social conditions -- 1789-1900
• Europe -- Social conditions -- 18th century
• Luxury -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History -- 18th century
• Luxury -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History -- 19th century
• Luxury goods industry -- Europe -- History
• Sex role -- Europe -- History
• Social classes -- Europe -- History
• City and town life -- Europe -- History

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"--

Member of

• Routledge studies in cultural history, 32

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

306.3094

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Routledge studies in cultural history

Series volume

32