Introduction; Chapter 1 The Social Calendar; Chapter 2 The Female World of Ritual and Etiquette; Chapter 3 Interiors and Façades; Chapter 4 Women Abroad; Chapter 5 “Optical Excursions”; Chapter 6 Women in the Public Eye; conclusion Spectacle and Surveillance;
Maureen E. Montgomery is Chair of the Department of American Studies at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
"Montgomery offers vital insight into the operation of [gender and
class] in one particular, and culturally significant, place and
time." -- American LiteraryRealism
"Students of US literature, culture, and women's history will
welcome this well-documented, readable study of fashionalbe
post-Civil War New York...All academic collections." -- Choice
"...Montgomery deftly shows how turn-of-the-century New York
brought about the marriage of publicity and culture--a relationship
where one could not survive or, rather, thrive without the other."
-- Publisher's Weekly
"Recommended for all collections." -- Choice
"The leisured world of society women in Edith Wharton's New York
may have disappeared completely as Schliemann's Troy or Imperial
Rome, but it is brought vividly to life by Maureen Montgomery in
this fascinating study of a rigidly and artificially ordered
culture that brought women curiously unexpected advantages as well
as deadly drawbacks." -- Louis Auchincloss
"Finally! A study of the truly elite women of the turn of the
century metropolis, which uses all the best new tools of cultural
studies and gender analysis. Maureen Montgomery has given us a
crucial element for our understanding of class relations and of
femininity at the dawn of the twentieth century." -- Ellen Carol
DuBois, UCLA
"...the book is as interesting as it is relaxing, and as relaxing
as it must have been for a pampered woman of the times to have that
cup of tea after her rounds of debutante balls..." -- The New York
Times Book Review
"Students of US literature, culture, and women's history will
welcome this well-documented, readable study of fashionable
post-Civil War New York." -- Choice
"This excellent study of New York society women takes us well
beyond the question of whether upper-class women are worthy of our
attention; Displaying Women demonstrates convincingly that they
played a key role in the formation of America's ruling class and of
our late twentieth-century cult of celebrity."
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