{"product_id":"displaying-women","title":"Displaying Women","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDisplaying Women\u003c\/em\u003e explores the role of women in the representation of leisure in turn-of-the-century New York. To see and be seen--on Fifth Avenue and Broadway, in Central Park, and in the fashionable uptown hotels and restaurants--was one of the fundamental principles in the display aesthetic of New York's fashionable society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Maureen E. Montgomery argues for a reconsideration of the role of women in the bourgeois elite in turn-of-the-century America. By contrasting multiple images of women drawn from newspapers, magazines, private correspondence, etiquette manuals and the New York fiction of Edith Wharton, Henry James and others, she offers a convincing antidote to the long-standing tendency in women's history to overlook women whose class affiliations have put them in a position of power.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54236162818392,"sku":"9780415905664","price":56.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780415905664.jpg?v=1779171346","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/displaying-women","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}