Accessories to modernity : fashion and the feminine in nineteenth-century France / Susan Hiner.

viii, 281 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-272) and index.

La Femme comme il (en) faut and the pursuit of distinction -- Unpacking the Corbeille de mariage -- "Cashmere fever": virtue and the domestication of the exotic -- Mademoiselle Ombrelle: shielding the fair sex -- Fan fetish: gender, nostalgia, and commodification -- Between good intentions and ulterior motives: the culture of handbags -- Epilogue. The feminine accessory.

9780812242591 (hardcover : alk. paper)

391.00944'09034 H662a 2010