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Intimate apparel, a term in use by 1921, has played a crucial role in the development of the "naughty but nice" feminine ideal that emerged in the twentieth century. Jill Fields's engaging, imaginative, and sophisticated history of twentieth-century lingerie tours the world of women's intimate apparel and arrives at nothing less than a sweeping view of twentieth-century women's history via the undergarments they wore. Illustrated throughout and drawing on a wealth of evidence from fashion magazines, trade periodicals, costume artifacts, Hollywood films, and the records of organized labor, An Intimate Affair is a provocative examination of the ways cultural meanings are orchestrated by the "fashion-industrial complex," and the ways in which individuals and groups embrace, reject, or derive meaning from these everyday, yet highly significant, intimate articles of clothing.

Lingerie --- Women's clothing --- Clothing and dress --- Advertising --- History. --- Symbolic aspects. --- Erotic aspects. --- Fashion. --- 20th century american culture. --- 20th century womens history. --- american feminist. --- black lingerie. --- bra. --- brassieres. --- clothing. --- corsets. --- cultural studies. --- drawers. --- everyday clothing. --- fashion and clothing. --- fashion industrial complex. --- fashion magazines. --- feminine ideal. --- feminism. --- feminist theory. --- gender studies. --- girdles. --- intimate apparel advertising. --- intimate apparel workers. --- intimate apparel. --- sex and gender. --- sexual foundations. --- sexual. --- sexuality. --- social history. --- undergarments. --- underwear. --- union culture. --- womens fashion.

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Celebrating the 150th birthday of the state of California offers the opportunity to reexamine the founding of modern California, from the earliest days through the Gold Rush and up to 1870. In this four-volume series, published in association with the California Historical Society, leading scholars offer a contemporary perspective on such issues as the evolution of a distinctive California culture, the interaction between people and the natural environment, the ways in which California's development affected the United States and the world, and the legacy of cultural and ethnic diversity in the state. California before the Gold Rush, the first California Sesquicentennial volume, combines topics of interest to scholars and general readers alike. The essays investigate traditional historical subjects and also explore such areas as environmental science, women's history, and Indian history. Authored by distinguished scholars in their respective fields, each essay contains excellent summary bibliographies of leading works on pertinent topics. This volume also features an extraordinary full-color photographic essay on the artistic record of the conquest of California by Europeans, as well as over seventy black-and-white photographs, some never before published.

Gold mines and mining --- Gold discoveries --- Gold extraction (Mining) --- Gold fields --- Gold mining --- Gold rush --- Gold rushes --- Goldfields --- Goldmining --- Goldrush --- Goldrushes --- Sites, Gold mining --- Mines and mineral resources --- History. --- California --- History --- 1800s. --- academic. --- american culture. --- american history. --- beaches. --- california culture. --- california historical society. --- california. --- contemporary. --- cultural context. --- cultural history. --- diversity. --- environmental science. --- essay collection. --- ethnic diversity. --- ethnicity. --- gold rush. --- historical context. --- indian history. --- indigenous people. --- pacific ocean. --- race. --- racism. --- scholarly. --- state history. --- united states. --- us history. --- valley girl. --- west coast. --- western united states. --- womens history.

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In the German states in the late eighteenth century, women flourished as musical performers and composers, their achievements measuring the progress of culture and society from barbarism to civilization. Female excellence, and related feminocentric values, were celebrated by forward-looking critics who argued for music as a fine art, a component of modern, polite, and commercial culture, rather than a symbol of institutional power. In the eyes of such critics, femininity-a newly emerging and primarily bourgeois ideal-linked women and music under the valorized signs of refinement, sensibility, virtue, patriotism, luxury, and, above all, beauty. This moment in musical history was eclipsed in the first decades of the nineteenth century, and ultimately erased from the music-historical record, by now familiar developments: the formation of musical canons, a musical history based on technical progress, the idea of masterworks, authorial autonomy, the musical sublime, and aggressively essentializing ideas about the relationship between sex, gender and art. In Sovereign Feminine, Matthew Head restores this earlier musical history and explores the role that women played in the development of classical music.

Music --- Women musicians --- Gender identity in music. --- Musicians, Women --- Women as musicians --- Musicians --- Art music --- Art music, Western --- Classical music --- Musical compositions --- Musical works --- Serious music --- Western art music --- Western music (Western countries) --- History and criticism. --- Social aspects --- History --- Gender identity in music --- History and criticism --- Identité sexuelle dans la musique --- Musiciennes --- Musique --- Histoire --- Histoire et critique --- 18th century. --- 19th century. --- art. --- authorial autonomy. --- beauty. --- bourgeois ideal. --- classical music. --- classical. --- commercial culture. --- engaging. --- female composers. --- female excellence. --- female musicians. --- femininity. --- feminocentric values. --- fine arts. --- gender studies. --- german states. --- luxury. --- masterworks. --- music. --- musical canons. --- musical composers. --- musical history. --- musical performers. --- musical. --- patriotism. --- performing arts. --- refinement. --- sensibility. --- sex. --- social issues. --- virtue. --- womens history. --- womens issues.

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This handsomely illustrated book is a welcome addition to the history of women during America’s Gilded Age. Wanda M. Corn takes as her topic the grand neo-classical Woman’s Building at the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, a structure celebrating modern woman’s progress in education, arts, and sciences. Looking closely at the paintings and sculptures women artists made to decorate the structure, including the murals by Mary Cassatt and Mary MacMonnies, Corn uncovers an unspoken but consensual program to visualize a history of the female sex and promote an expansion of modern woman’s opportunities. Beautifully written, with informative sidebars by Annelise K. Madsen and artist biographies by Charlene G. Garfinkle, this volume illuminates the originality of the public images female artists created in 1893 and inserts them into the complex discourse of fin de siècle woman’s politics. The Woman’s Building offered female artists an unprecedented opportunity to create public art and imagine an historical narrative that put women rather than men at its center.

Sex role in art,. --- Women artists. --- Women in art. --- Women in art --- Sex role in art --- Mural painting and decoration --- Decoration and ornament, Architectural --- Women artists --- Themes, motives --- History --- Themes, motives --- Woman's Building (World's Columbian Exposition, 1893, Chicago, Ill.) --- Chicago (Ill.) --- Buildings, structures, etc. --- 1893 columbian expedition. --- 19th century art. --- 19th century chicago. --- 19th century culture. --- 19th century history. --- 19th century women. --- art at columbian expedition. --- art criticism. --- art herstory. --- art history. --- art. --- artists. --- chicago worlds fair. --- columbian expedition chicago. --- historical art. --- murals. --- paintings. --- public art. --- white city worlds fair. --- white city. --- womans building 1893 columbian expedition. --- womans building. --- women artists. --- women in art. --- womens history. --- worlds fair.

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This indispensable guide for students of both Chinese and women's history synthesizes recent research on women in twentieth-century China. Written by a leading historian of China, it surveys more than 650 scholarly works, discussing Chinese women in the context of marriage, family, sexuality, labor, and national modernity. In the process, Hershatter offers keen analytic insights and judgments about the works themselves and the evolution of related academic fields. The result is both a practical bibliographic tool and a thoughtful reflection on how we approach the past.

Feminism --- Women and communism --- Sex role --- Women --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Communism and women --- Communism --- Gender role --- Sex (Psychology) --- Sex differences (Psychology) --- Social role --- Gender expression --- Sexism --- Employment --- Social conditions --- S11/0710 --- S11/0730 --- China: Social sciences--Women: general and before 1949 --- China: Social sciences--Women: since 1949 --- Gender roles --- Gendered role --- Gendered roles --- Role, Gender --- Role, Gendered --- Role, Sex --- Roles, Gender --- Roles, Gendered --- Roles, Sex --- Sex roles --- asian women. --- china. --- chinese history. --- chinese literature. --- chinese women. --- communism. --- communist. --- cultural revolution. --- domesticity. --- employment. --- factory workers. --- factory. --- family. --- female infanticide. --- femininity. --- feminism. --- gender roles. --- gender studies. --- gender. --- gendered labor. --- historiography. --- history. --- household labor. --- labor. --- marriage. --- nonfiction. --- peoples republic. --- republic. --- rural women. --- sex roles. --- sexuality. --- urban women. --- women and labor. --- women in the workforce. --- womens history. --- womens studies.