Women, Consumption, and the Circulation of Ideas in South-Eastern Europe, 17th - 19th Centuries, (Balkan Studies Library, 20)

A collection of stories and analysis about women, luxury, fashion and education in South-Eastern Europe in pre-modern and modern times. Contents Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction Chapter 1 Translating Imperial Practices, Knowledge, and Taste Across the Mediterranean: Giulio Ferrario and Ignatius Mouradgea d’Ohsson Chapter 2 French Residents and Ottoman Women in 18th-Century Levant: Personal Relations, Social Control, and Cultural Interchange Chapter 3 Women’s Fashion in Dalmatia at the End of the 18th Century Chapter 4 A Dialogue of Sources: Greek Bourgeois Women and Material Culture in the Long 18th Century Chapter 5 “Curls and Forelocks”: Romanian Women’s Emancipation in Consumption and Fashion, 1780–1850 Chapter 6 European Fashion, Consumption Patterns, and Intercommunal Relations in the 19th-Century Ottoman Istanbul Chapter 7 Women in Merchant Families, Women in Trade in Mid-19th Century Romanian Countries Chapter 8 Women Travellers as Consumers: Adoption of Modern Ideas and Practices in 19th-Century Southeast Europe Index Women, fashion, consumption, luxury, and education are the main subjects of our researchers. The contributors of this volume accompanied women and objects in their travels across Modern Europe and offered thorough and diverse analyses connecting the circulation of people with the circulation of ideas. Making use of the archive materials, visual sources and museum collections, the authors pointed out the richness of the region and the role of women in promoting new ideas of modernity. The information contained here will help the public to better know and understand the part of women's sociability in building new nations and constructing new identities along South-Eastern Europe and beyond. Book jacket Women, fashion, consumption, luxury, and education are the main subjects of our researchers. The contributors of this volume accompanied women and objects in their travels across Modern Europe and offered thorough and diverse analyses connecting the circulation of people with the circulation of ideas. Making use of archive materials, visual sources and museum collections, the authors point out the richness of the region and the role of women in promoting new ideas of modernity. This will help the public to better know and understand the importance of women's sociability in building new nations and constructing new identities in South-Eastern Europe and beyond.