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Luxury and Gender in European Towns, 1700-1914 (Paperback)
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Luxury and Gender in European Towns, 1700-1914 (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History
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This book conceives the role of the modern town as a crucial place
for material and cultural circulations of luxury. It concentrates
on a critical period of historical change, the long eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries, that was marked by the passage from a society
of scarcity to one of expenditure and accumulation, from ranks and
orders to greater social mobility, from traditional aristocratic
luxury to a new bourgeois and even democratic form of luxury. This
volume recognizes the notion that luxury operated as a mechanism of
social separation, but also that all classes aspired to engage in
consumption at some level, thus extending the idea of what
constituted luxury and blurring the boundaries of class and status,
often in unsettling ways. It moves beyond the moral aspects of
luxury and the luxury debates to analyze how the production,
distribution, purchase or display of luxury goods could participate
in the creation of autonomous selves and thus challenge gender
roles.
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