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Journal Article
Dressing Up and Dressing Down: Prostitution, Pornography, and the Seventeenth-Century English Textile Industry
1999
Overview
John Dunton's 1696 parable about the dangers of middle-class women
dressing like \"persons of quality\" has its roots in the more or less
endemic anxiety that prostitutes' \"excellent Art . . . can easily turn
a Sempstress into a waiting Gentlewoman.\" Recent scholarship on early
modern prostitution and pornography interprets the time-honored conflation
of women's bodies and the clothes they wear largely in economic terms,
emphasizing English culture's treatment of prostitution as a degraded
expression of capitalist production and consumption. But Dunton's allegory
eludes this economic account of clothing's relationship to prostitution
and pornography as he insists that clothing causes middle-class women's
social and sexual degradation, rather than masking it. This insistence
situates Dunton's warning within a half-century-long tradition of
antidemocratic political pornographic satire that used clothing as a
political rather than a social or economic signifier.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press,Indiana University Press
Subject
/ Ambition
/ Business
/ Clothes
/ Crime
/ Dress
/ Dressing
/ England
/ Erotica - legislation & jurisprudence
/ Females
/ History
/ Politics
/ Sex Work - legislation & jurisprudence
/ Textile Industry - economics
/ Textile Industry - education
/ Textiles
