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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Standard-sized.
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Near Fine. 0822326620. Cover is burgundy with gold lettering on front and spine. Burgundy endpapers. Pages are clean and tight; this is a NEW book. Printed on acid free paper. Illustrated with several dozen b/w illustrations and tables. Includes a list of abbreviations; money and measurements; notes, bibliography, index. Some of the chapters are: Seamstresses and the Culture of Clothing in Old Regime France; Tools, Techniques, and Commercial Practices; The Tailors and the Seamstresses: Corporate Privilege, Gender and the Law; Women's Corporate Self-Government: the Administration of the Parisian Seamstresses' Guild; Marriage, Fortune and Family: The World of the Mistress Seamstress; etc. An absolutely fascinating study of an incredibly important group of women, central to the French economy, but traditionally overlooked. Anyone who has seen the clothing of the upper classes in late 17th century and 18th century France can readily understand how important these poor, overlooked, overworked, undervalued women were, both to the social place of those above them, and the general economy. In contrast with scholarship on women and gender in the modern period, the author asserts that the rise of the absolute state, with its centralising and unifying tendencies, could actually increase women's economic, social, and legal opportunities and allow them to thrive in corporate organisations such as the guild.; Remainder; B & W illustrations; 6 1/4 x 9 1/2; xviii, 508 pages; Hardcover has very slight bumping; fine black remainder line along bottom.
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Very Good. Small 4to 9"-11" tall; 508 pages; No Dust Jacket, Maroone Cloth Binding, Book Shows No Wear Text is clean no markings seen Buckram Binding; BX260.
