The white dresses of suffragists stand out as one example of women's fashion that made a statement. Einav Rabinovitch-Fox joins the show to discuss her book Dressed for Freedom: American Feminism and the Politics of Women’s Fashion and the many ways that style brought the substance of women's activism into the public discourse.Essential Reading:Einav Rabinovitch-Fox, Dressed for Freedom: American Feminism and the Politics of Women’s Fashion (2021).Recommended Reading:Elizabeth Block, Dressing Up: The Women Who Influenced French Fashion (2021).Nan Enstad, Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure: Working Women, Popular Culture, and Labor Politics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (1999).Patricia Campbell Warner, When the Girls Came Out to Play: The Birth of American Sportswear (2006).Patricia A. Cunningham, Reforming Women’s Fashion, 1850-1920: Politics, Health, and Art (2003).Deborah Saville, “Dress and Culture in Greenwich Village,” in Twentieth-Century American Fashion, ed. Linda Walters and Patricia A. Cunningham (2005).Allison Lange, Picturing Political Power: Images in the Women's Suffrage Movement (2020). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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