Displaying Women explores the role of women in the representation of leisure in turn-of-the-century New York. To see and be seen--on Fifth Avenue and Broadway, in Central Park, and in the fashionable uptown hotels and restaurants--was one of the fundamental principles in the display aesthetic of New York's fashionable society.
Maureen E. Montgomery argues for a reconsideration of the role of women in the bourgeois elite in turn-of-the-century America. By contrasting multiple images of women drawn from newspapers, magazines, private correspondence, etiquette manuals and the New York fiction of Edith Wharton, Henry James and others, she offers a convincing antidote to the long-standing tendency in women's history to overlook women whose class affiliations have put them in a position of power.
Maureen E. Montgomery argues for a reconsideration of the role of women in the bourgeois elite in turn-of-the-century America. By contrasting multiple images of women drawn from newspapers, magazines, private correspondence, etiquette manuals and the New York fiction of Edith Wharton, Henry James and others, she offers a convincing antidote to the long-standing tendency in women's history to overlook women whose class affiliations have put them in a position of power.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9780415905664
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-0-415-90566-4
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis
- Erscheinungstermin: 06.04.1998
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 1. Auflage 1998
- Produktform: Kartoniert
- Gewicht: 327 g
- Seiten: 226
- Format (B x H x T): 152 x 227 x 13 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt