"Curls and forelocks": Romanian Women's Emancipation in Consumption and Fashion, 1780-1850

Once a culture is undertaken, women are a significant and an active agent when we speak about consumption and dissemination of ideas. For this intervention, I will analyze the Romanian case in quite a challenging time for the Christian elite and for the manner in which the social status was (re)defined. The shopping lists, family registers, dowries and wills are the main sources for such a research theme. Many of these sources are still unedited and they offer much important information about consumption and the circulation of ideas. Through such archival documents we can recompose the distribution network of these assets, the connexion between clients, their tastes, and ideas and how they chose to integrate them, the social status and the women involvement in consumption