Pantaloons and Power(English, Paperback, The Kent State University Press)

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Pantaloons and Power(English, Paperback, The Kent State University Press) is written by The Kent State University Press and published by Kent State University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0873386825 (ISBN 10) and 9780873386821 (ISBN 13).

Clothing is often an indication of an individual's status, and gender. By the early nineteenth century clear definitions had developed regarding how American women and men were supposed to appear in public and how they were meant to lead their lives. As men's style of dress moved from the ornate to the moderate, women's fashions continued to be decorative and physically restrictive. This visible separation of the sexes was paralleled in other arenas - social, cultural, and religions. Some women defied this convention and cut their skirts short, abandoned their corsets, and put on trousers. In Pantaloons and Power Gayle V. Fisher shows how the reformers' denouncement of conventional dress highlighted the role of clothing in the struggle of power relations between the sexes.