Fabricating Women: The Seamstresses of Old Regime France, 1675-1791 by Clare Haru Crowston

Fabricating Women: The Seamstresses of Old Regime France, 1675-1791

Clare Haru Crowston

528 pages • first pub 2001 (view editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative inspiring slow-paced
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Winner of the 2002 Berkshire Prize, presented by the Berkshire Conference of Women HistoriansFabricating Women examines the social institution of the seamstresses’ guild in France from the time of Louis XIV to the Revolution. In contrast with prev...

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