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S4 E2 - Neoclassicism, Antiquity and Women’s Dress
Season 4 Episode 2
Season 4 - Politics 🏛️ 🎙️
Episode 2 - Neoclassicism, Antiquity, and Women’s Dress 👗🏛️
How did women's dress in the late 18th century affect their agency? How did women assert both intellectual and power through walking and clothing? And how is this all related to neoclassicism?
Ashley Price graduated from Honours in History at the ANU in 2024. In this episode, her thesis makes for some fascinating discussion about the history of neoclassicism not just as a masculine phenomenon, but a feminine one too!
Her work investigates the intersection between women's history and early-modern Europe, and how our views of the past can lead us to ignore their place within it …
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