Displaying Women

Montgomery, Maureen E.

ISBN 10: 0415905664 / ISBN 13: 9780415905664

Published by Routledge, 1998

About this Item

The book is in good condition with all pages and cover intact, including the dust jacket if originally issued. The spine may show light wear. Pages may contain some notes or highlighting, and there might be a "From the library of" label. Boxed set packaging, shrink wrap, or included media like CDs may be missing.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Displaying Women
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415905664
• ISBN 13: 9780415905664
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: good

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Maureen E. Montgomery is Chair of the Department of American Studies at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.