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

by Clare Haru Crowston

Book Overview

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 actually...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822326663
• ISBN13: 9780822326663
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.3"