Abstract
This article explores the economic, cultural and political role of credit networks in the Ancien Régime through a study of the career of the fashion merchant Rose Bertin. It examines three aspects of the practices inherent to Rose Bertin's credit networks: her implication in commercial credit networks, her manipulation of her reputation as a particular form of credit, and the way her enemies underlined her credit relations with Marie-Antoinette to discredit the political economy of the sex.
| Translated title of the contribution | The Queen and Her ‘Minister of Fashion’: Gender, Credit, and Politics in Pre-revolutionary France |
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| Original language | French |
| Pages (from-to) | 75-94 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| Journal | Travail, Genre et Societe |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Apr 1 2005 |
| Externally published | Yes |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Gender Studies
- Sociology and Political Science
- Economics and Econometrics
- Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management