Designing Women: The Dressing Room In Eighteenth-century English Literature And Culture

In 18th-century English literature, the dressing room represented the possibility that women could act independently and selfishly, but would not if they were good mothers, says Chico (English, Texas Tech University). That dressing rooms were much more common in literature than even in upper-class women's households, she finds to indicate that society was quite worried that women might challenge patriarchal prerogative. Distributed in the US by Associated University Presses. Annotation 穢2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)