Pantaloons & Power
Pantaloons & Power

Author: Gayle V. Fischer

Publisher: Kent State University Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 9780873386821

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Clothing is often an indication of an individual's status, and gender. By the early nineteenth century clear definitions had developed regarding how American women and men were supposed to appear in public and how they were meant to lead their lives. As men's style of dress moved from the ornate to the moderate, women's fashions continued to be decorative and physically restrictive. This visible separation of the sexes was paralleled in other arenas - social, cultural, and religions. Some women defied this convention and cut their skirts short, abandoned their corsets, and put on trousers. In Pantaloons and Power Gayle V. Fisher shows how the reformers' denouncement of conventional dress highlighted the role of clothing in the struggle of power relations between the sexes.

Reforming Women's Fashion, 1850-1920
Reforming Women's Fashion, 1850-1920

Author: Patricia A. Cunningham

Publisher: Kent State University Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 9780873387422

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This work focuses on the efforts toward reforming women's dress that took place in Europe and America in the latter half of the 18th century and the first decade of the 20th century, and the types of garments adopted by women to overcome the challenges posed by fashionable dress. It considers the many advocates for reform and examines their motives, their arguments for change, and how they promoted improvements in women's fashion. Though there was no single overarching dress reform movement, it reveals similarities among the arguments posed by diverse groups of reformers, including especially the equation of reform with an ideal image of improved health. Drawing on a variety of primary and secondary sources in the USA and Europe - including the popular press, advice books for women, allopathic and alternative medical literature, and books on aesthetics, art, health, and physical education - the text makes a significant contribution to costume studies, social history, and women's studies.

The Gilded Hour
The Gilded Hour

Author: Sara Donati

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 754

ISBN-13: 0425271811

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Haunted by childhood losses in spite of successful medical careers in 1883 New York City, surgeon Anna Savard and her obstetrician cousin, Sophie, consider taking in a child and helping a desperate young mother, while avoiding dangerous anti-vice crusader Anthony Comstock.

The Woman as Slave in Nineteenth-Century American Social Movements
The Woman as Slave in Nineteenth-Century American Social Movements

Author: Ana Stevenson

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2020-02-04

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783030244668

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This book is the first to develop a history of the analogy between woman and slave, charting its changing meanings and enduring implications across the social movements of the long nineteenth century. Looking beyond its foundations in the antislavery and women’s rights movements, this book examines the influence of the woman-slave analogy in popular culture along with its use across the dress reform, labor, suffrage, free love, racial uplift, and anti-vice movements. At once provocative and commonplace, the woman-slave analogy was used to exceptionally varied ends in the era of chattel slavery and slave emancipation. Yet, as this book reveals, a more diverse assembly of reformers both accepted and embraced a woman-as-slave worldview than has previously been appreciated. One of the most significant yet controversial rhetorical strategies in the history of feminism, the legacy of the woman-slave analogy continues to underpin the debates that shape feminist theory today.

Reforming Women
Reforming Women

Author: Lisa J. Shaver

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press

Published: 2019-02-02

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 0822986469

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In Reforming Women, Lisa Shaver locates the emergence of a distinct women’s rhetoric and feminist consciousness in the American Female Moral Reform Society. Established in 1834, the society took aim at prostitution, brothels, and the lascivious behavior increasingly visible in America’s industrializing cities. In particular, female moral reformers contested the double standard that overlooked promiscuous behavior in men while harshly condemning women for the same offense. Their ardent rhetoric resonated with women across the country. With its widely-read periodical and auxiliary societies representing more than 50,000 women, the American Female Moral Reform Society became the first national reform movement organized, led, and comprised solely by women. Drawing on an in-depth examination of the group’s periodical, Reforming Women delineates essential rhetorical tactics including women’s strategic use of gender, the periodical press, anger, presence, auxiliary societies, and institutional rhetoric—tactics women’s reform efforts would use throughout the nineteenth century. Almost two centuries later, female moral reformers’ rhetoric resonates today as our society continues to struggle with different moral expectations for men and women.

Clothing Through American History
Clothing Through American History

Author: Anita Stamper

Publisher: Greenwood

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0313335516

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Provides information on fabrics, materials, and manufacturing; a discussion of daily life and dress; and the types of clothes worn by men, women and children of all levels of society.

Wearing the Trousers
Wearing the Trousers

Author: Don Chapman

Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited

Published: 2017-09-15

Total Pages: 531

ISBN-13: 144566951X

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The story of women's liberation as told by their changing dress – in the public gaze and in private

You Forgot Your Skirt, Amelia Bloomer
You Forgot Your Skirt, Amelia Bloomer

Author: Shana Corey

Publisher: Scholastic Reference

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 9780439078191

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Amelia Bloomer, who does not behave the way 19th-century society says a proper lady should, introduces pantaloons to American women. Full-color illustrations.

Artifacts from Nineteenth-Century America
Artifacts from Nineteenth-Century America

Author: Elizabeth B. Greene

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2022-11-07

Total Pages: 435

ISBN-13:

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This book presents both nationally significant objects and ordinary items from everyday life to provide insight into 19th century American society, showing readers how the production, design, function, and use of these objects can inform our understanding of the period. Artifacts from 19th Century America examines a broad array of objects representing various aspects of 19th century American society. The objects have been chosen to illuminate daily life in a number of categories including cooking, entertainment, grooming, clothing and accessories, health, household items, religious life, work, and education. The book's 53 entries include a brief introduction to the background of the object, when and why it was made, and who used it, followed by a detailed description of the object itself. Finally, each entry provides a deep dive into the object's significance and how the object reveals clues about the social, political, economic, and intellectual life of the society in which it was produced and utilized. Students and general readers alike will not only learn about the time period but also learn to use the skills of material culture theory and method, including how to draw meaningful conclusions from each object about their historical context and significance.