Clare Haru Crowston

Fabricating Women

The Seamstresses of Old Regime France, 1675-1791

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"A welcome contribution to the literature on women's work in preindustrial Europe. This is so well placed in the economic and social history of the period that it will become a classic among the books that define the age."--Daryl M. Hafter, author of "European Women and Preindustrial Craft"

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 528
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 247mm x 160mm x 42mm
• Gewicht: 975g
• ISBN-13: 9780822326625
• ISBN-10: 0822326620
• Artikelnr.: 21244283

Autorenporträt

Clare Haru Crowston is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures and Tables
List of Abreviations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One: Making the Goods
> 1. Seamstresses and the Culture of Clothing in Old Regime France
> 2. From Mending to modes: Trade Hierarchies and the Labor Market
> 3. Tools, Techniques, and Commercial Practices
Part Two: Making the Guilds
> 4. The Royal Government, Guilds, and the Seamstresses of Paris, Normandy,
and Provence
> 5. The Tailors and the Seamstresses: Corporate Privilege, Gender, and the
Law
> 6. Women’s Corporate Self-Government: The Administration of the Parisian
Seamstresses’ Guild
Part Three: Making the Mistresses
> 7. Career Paths in the Seamstresses’ Trade: From Apprenticeship to
Mistress-ship
> 8. Marriage, Fortune, and Family: The World of the Mistress Seamstress
> 9. Making the New Century: The Seamstresses, fin et suite
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index