Dressing Modern Frenchwomen by Mary Lynn Stewart

Dressing Modern Frenchwomen by Mary Lynn Stewart

Dressing Modern Frenchwomen draws from thousands of magazine covers, advertisements, fashion columns, and features to uncover and untangle the fascinating relationships among the fashion industry, the development of modern marketing techniques, and the evolution of the modern woman as active, mobile, and liberated.

A history no college-level fashion collection should be withoutMidwest Book Review 2008 Scholarly and deeply empirical, the book's detail is wonderful. -- Caroline Evans American Historical Review This is... a very valuable book. Its insights into interwar culture and business practices will be useful for all historians of the period. -- Denise Davidson Journal of Modern History 2010 This is a solid addition to scholarly knowledge on multiple topics. Stewart clearly demonstrates the importance of her subject and has mined her sources to good effect. -- John S. Hill Canadian Journal of History 2010

Mary Lynn Stewart is a professor and chair of women's studies at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada. She is the author of For Health and Beauty: Physical Culture for Frenchwomen, 1880s-1930s and coauthor of Gender and the Politics of Social Reform in France, 1870-1914, both published by Johns Hopkins.

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ISBN 13	9780801888038
ISBN 10	0801888034
Title	Dressing Modern Frenchwomen
Author	Mary Lynn Stewart
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Johns Hopkins University Press
Year published	2008-05-26
Number of pages	328
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