Abstract
Women of the nineteenth century experienced a paradox of opportunity and constraint. The social system engendered by industrialization expanded educational and professional possibilities but demanded strict adherence to the performance of femininity. Gender was principally demonstrated through clothing, the site of ideological struggle for dress reform. This essay explores the rhetorical dimensions of dress reform as a social movement through an analysis of The Sibyl, a paper published from 1856–1864.
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