| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 508 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Duke backfile |
| Contents |
Seamstresses and the culture of clothing in Old Regime France -- From mending to modes: trade hierarchies and the labor market -- Tools, techniques, and commercial practices -- The royal government, guilds, and the seamstresses of Paris, Normandy, and Provence -- The tailors and the seamstresses: corporate privilege, gender, and the law -- Women's corporate self-government: the administration of the Parisian Seamstresses' Guild -- Career paths in the seamstresses' trade: from apprenticeship to mistress-ship -- Marriage, fortune and family: the world of the mistress seamstress -- Making the new century: the seamstresses, fin et suite |
| Summary |
A study of the seamstresses of late 17th and 18th-century France, who developed a quintessentially feminine occupation that became a major factor in the urban economy |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 475-494) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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In English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2019. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Women tailors -- France -- History
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Women dressmakers -- France -- History
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Women in guilds -- France -- History
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Sexual division of labor -- France -- History
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Clothing trade -- France -- History
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
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Clothing trade
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Sexual division of labor
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Women dressmakers
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Women in guilds
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Women tailors
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Schneiderin
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Kleermakerijen.
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Naaisters.
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Gilden.
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France
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Frankreich
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780822383062 |
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0822383063 |
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