Stevenson, Ana 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4858-1073
(2017)
‘Bloomers’ and the British world: dress reform in transatlantic and antipodean print culture, 1851–1950.
Cultural and Social History, 14 (5).
pp. 621-646.
ISSN 1478-0038
Abstract
The ‘bloomers’ are rarely considered beyond their 1851 origins in the United States and subsequent appearance in Britain. This article expands dress reform scholarship by analysing print culture elsewhere in the British world, specifically Australia and New Zealand. The colonial press manufactured controversy over this fashion – a perceived transgression of gender norms – even though antipodean women rarely sported the outfit. This article focuses on the dress reform lectures and writings of Amelia Bloomer, Caroline Dexter and Dr Mary Walker. While certain continuities resurfaced alongside the bloomer-like rational dress popularised in the bicycling culture of the 1890s, dress reform was largely deemed far less controversial by the turn of the twentieth century.
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| Item Type: | Article (Commonwealth Reporting Category C) |
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| Refereed: | Yes |
| Item Status: | Live Archive |
| Faculty/School / Institute/Centre: | No Faculty |
| Faculty/School / Institute/Centre: | No Faculty |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Mar 2022 06:01 |
| Last Modified: | 30 May 2022 01:10 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | dress reform; gender; print culture; transatlantic; antipodean |
| Fields of Research (2020): | 43 HISTORY, HERITAGE AND ARCHAEOLOGY > 4303 Historical studies > 430309 Gender history 43 HISTORY, HERITAGE AND ARCHAEOLOGY > 4303 Historical studies > 430323 Transnational history 43 HISTORY, HERITAGE AND ARCHAEOLOGY > 4303 Historical studies > 430313 History of empires, imperialism and colonialism |
| Socio-Economic Objectives (2020): | 13 CULTURE AND SOCIETY > 1307 Understanding past societies > 130703 Understanding Australia’s past |
| Identification Number or DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2017.1375706 |
| URI: | http://eprints.usq.edu.au/id/eprint/47187 |
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