Katherine Appleford's Books

Classifying Fashion, Fashioning Class

Making Sense of Women's Practices, Perceptions and Tastes

By: Katherine Appleford

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Classifying Fashion, Fashioning Class

Making Sense of Women's Practices, Perceptions and Tastes

By: Katherine Appleford

Drawing together theoretical ideas from across the social sciences, Classifying Fashion, Fashioning Class examines how the fashion-class association has developed and, using the experiences of middle-and-working class British women, demonstrates how this relationship operates today. Though increasingly academics argue that contemporary class distinctions are made through cultural practices and tastes, few have fully explored just how individual’s fashion choices mobilise class and are used in class evaluations. Yet, an individual’s everyday dress is perhaps the most immediate marker of taste, and thus an important means of class distinction. This is particularly true for women, as their performances of respectability, femininity and motherhood are embodied by fashion and shaped by class. In unpacking this fashion-class relationship, the book explores how fashion is used by British women to talk about class. It offers important insights into the ways fashion mobilises class differences in understandings of dressing up, performance and public space. It considers how class identity shapes women’s attitudes concerning fashion trends and classic styles, and it draws attention to the pivotal role mothers play in cultivating these class distinctions. The book will be of interest to students in sociology, fashion studies, cultural studies, human geography and consumer behaviour.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

284

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1351856464

ISBN 13

9781351856461

Household Goods and Good Households in Late Medieval London

Consumption and Domesticity After the Plague

By: Katherine L. French

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Household Goods and Good Households in Late Medieval London

Consumption and Domesticity After the Plague

By: Katherine L. French

The Black Death that arrived in the spring of 1348 eventually killed nearly half of England's population. In its long aftermath, wages in London rose in response to labor shortages, many survivors moved into larger quarters in the depopulated city, and people in general spent more money on food, clothing, and household furnishings than they had before. Household Goods and Good Households in Late Medieval London looks at how this increased consumption reconfigured long-held gender roles and changed the domestic lives of London's merchants and artisans for years to come. Grounding her analysis in both the study of surviving household artifacts and extensive archival research, Katherine L. French examines the accommodations that Londoners made to their bigger houses and the increasing number of possessions these contained. The changes in material circumstance reshaped domestic hierarchies and produced new routines and expectations. Recognizing that the greater number of possessions required a different kind of management and care, French puts housework and gender at the center of her study. Historically, the task of managing bodies and things and the dirt and chaos they create has been unproblematically defined as women's work. Housework, however, is neither timeless nor ahistorical, and French traces a major shift in women's household responsibilities to the arrival and gendering of new possessions and the creation of new household spaces in the decades after the plague.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

337

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0812299531

ISBN 13

9780812299533

Classifying Fashion, Fashioning Class

Making Sense of Women's Practices, Perceptions and Tastes

By: Katherine Appleford

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Classifying Fashion, Fashioning Class

Making Sense of Women's Practices, Perceptions and Tastes

By: Katherine Appleford

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

284

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1351856464

ISBN 13

9781351856461

The Practice and Politics of Reading, 650-1500

By: Daniel G. Donoghue,James Simpson,Nicholas Watson,Anna Wilson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Practice and Politics of Reading, 650-1500

By: Daniel G. Donoghue,James Simpson,Nicholas Watson,Anna Wilson

A new look at how reading was practised and represented in England from the seventh century to the beginnings of the print era, finding many kinships between reading cultures across the medieval longue durée.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

355

Publisher

Boydell & Brewer

Published Date

ISBN 10

1843846411

ISBN 13

9781843846413

Katherine Anne Porter

Conversations

By: Katherine Anne Porter

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Katherine Anne Porter

Conversations

By: Katherine Anne Porter

Collections of interviews with notable modern writers

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

226

Publisher

Univ. Press of Mississippi

Published Date

ISBN 10

0878052666

ISBN 13

9780878052660

Book's by Katherine Appleford

Classifying Fashion, Fashioning Class

Classifying Fashion, Fashioning Class

Household Goods and Good Households in Late Medieval London

Household Goods and Good Households in Late Medieval London

Classifying Fashion, Fashioning Class

Classifying Fashion, Fashioning Class

The Practice and Politics of Reading, 650-1500

The Practice and Politics of Reading, 650-1500

Katherine Anne Porter

Katherine Anne Porter

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email