It takes the average reader 4 hours to read Dress, Distress and Desire by Jennie Batchelor
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Dress, Distress and Desire brings together for the first time canonical and non-canonical texts including novels, conduct books and women's magazines to investigate the pressures that the growth of the fashion market placed on conceptions of female virtue and propriety. It shows how dress dispelled the sentimental myth that the body acted as a moral index and enabled the women reader to resist some of sentimental literature's more prescriptive advice.
Dress, Distress and Desire by Jennie Batchelor is 240 pages long, and a total of 60,000 words.
This makes it 81% the length of the average book. It also has 73% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 27 minutes to read Dress, Distress and Desire aloud.
Dress, Distress and Desire is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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