Fabricating Women: The Seamstresses of Old Regime France, 1675-1791

by Clare Haru Crowston

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Winner of the 2002 Berkshire Prize, presented by the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians

Fabricating Women examines the social institution of the seamstresses' guild in France from the time of Louis XIV to the Revolution. In contrast with previous scholarship on women and gender in the early modern period, Clare Haru Crowston asserts that the rise of the absolute state, with its centralizing and unifying tendencies, could...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0822326663

ISBN13:9780822326663

Release Date:December 2001

Publisher:Duke University Press

Length:528 Pages

Weight:0.40 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"

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