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I read Liberty Equality Fashion with enormous pleasure. It's such an original way of looking at history and the female sex in particular. I couldn't resist galloping through it.--Antonia Fraser, author of Marie Antoinette: The Journey A deeply scholarly, impeccably researched book that's also a genuine page-turner. Liberty, Equality, Fashion reveals how inextricably global politics is woven into--even forged by--fashion and women's personal, domestic lives. Using three influential women as a prism through which to examine one of the most critical and volatile eras in French history, Higonnet combines the fine-grained observational skills of the biographer with the assured vision and far-ranging perspective of the historian. This is important and ground-breaking scholarship - exciting, new, and profoundly feminist.--Rhonda Garelick, author of Mademoiselle: Coco Chanel and the Pulse of History

"""A deeply scholarly, impeccably researched book that’s also a genuine page-turner. Liberty, Equality, Fashion reveals how inextricably global politics is woven into—even forged by—fashion and women’s personal, domestic lives. Using three influential women as a prism through which to examine one of the most critical and volatile eras in French history, Higonnet combines the fine-grained observational skills of the biographer with the assured vision and far-ranging perspective of the historian. This is important and ground-breaking scholarship – exciting, new, and profoundly feminist."" -- Rhonda Garelick, author of Mademoiselle: Coco Chanel and the Pulse of History"

"""A deeply scholarly, impeccably researched book that’s also a genuine page-turner. Liberty, Equality, Fashion reveals how inextricably global politics is woven into—even forged by—fashion and women’s personal, domestic lives. Using three influential women as a prism through which to examine one of the most critical and volatile eras in French history, Higonnet combines the fine-grained observational skills of the biographer with the assured vision and far-ranging perspective of the historian. This is important and ground-breaking scholarship – exciting, new, and profoundly feminist."" -- Rhonda Garelick, author of Mademoiselle: Coco Chanel and the Pulse of History ""I read Liberty Equally Fashion with enormous pleasure. It’s such an original way of looking at history and the female sex in particular. I couldn't resist galloping through it."" -- Antonia Fraser, author of Marie Antoinette: The Journey"

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Anne Higonnet is professor of art history at Barnard College, Columbia University, where she teaches a course called “Clothing.” She has received many awards, including Guggenheim and Harvard Radcliffe Institute fellowships.

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