Women in pants : manly maidens, cowgirls, and other renegades / Catherine Smith & Cynthia Greig.
ISBN
0810945711
9780810945715
Dewey Classmark
391.097
Local Shelfmark
391.097 SMI
Personal Author
Smith, Catherine, 1950-
Publication
New York ; Harry N. Abrams, 2003.
Physical Description
183 p. : photos ; 27 cm
Contents
Contents: Conventional women: "A woman's body is compelled to fit her dress" -- Dress reform: "The great bifurcated movement" -- Multicultural influences: "very peculiar garb" -- Working women: "Done a mess o'work ... jes like a man" -- Military women: finding a woman in a soldier's dress" -- Women of the American west: "a genuine female cowboy" -- Performing women: "the ovation which her daring act calls forth" -- Actresses: "she might easily walk Broadway in male attire without her sex being suspected" -- Cross-dressed women: "the peril of the mannish girl" -- Romantic women: "she was always fond of the ladies!" -- Mock weddings: "dressed up as a man at that wedding" -- College women: "each soph constitutes herself a cavalier" -- Sporting women: " with an aggressive vim" -- Cycling women: "lady cyclists [in their] ... 'rational' dress" -- Adventurous women: " ... easier than voting."
Local Copy Note
Fashion Museum Collection.
Subject - Geographical Name
United States of America
Added Personal Name
Greig, Cynthia.
Copy Information
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Conventional women: "A woman's body is compelled to fit her dress" -- Dress reform: "The great bifurcated movement" -- Multicultural influences: "very peculiar garb" -- Working women: "Done a mess o'work ... jes like a man" -- Military women: finding a woman in a soldier's dress" -- Women of the American west: "a genuine female cowboy" -- Performing women: "the ovation which her daring act calls forth" -- Actresses: "she might easily walk Broadway in male attire without her sex being suspected" -- Cross-dressed women: "the peril of the mannish girl" -- Romantic women: "she was always fond of the ladies!" -- Mock weddings: "dressed up as a man at that wedding" -- College women: "each soph constitutes herself a cavalier" -- Sporting women: " with an aggressive vim" -- Cycling women: "lady cyclists [in their] ... 'rational' dress" -- Adventurous women: " ... easier than voting."
