Bound to please : a history of the Victorian corset / Leigh Summers.
Bound to please : a history of the Victorian corset / Leigh Summers.
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Publisher
Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2001.
Date
2001.
Call Numbers
N391.42/15
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Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
302 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. 'Elegance Comfort Durability!' Class, Contours, and Corsetry -- 2. Corsetry and the Invisibility of the Maternal Body -- 3. The Child, the Corset, and the Construction of Female Sexuality -- 4. Corsetry and the Reality of 'Female Complaints' -- 5. Breathless with Anticipation: Romance, Morbidity...
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Publisher
Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2001.
Series
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2001.
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Summary
"Corsets, and the corseted body, have been fetishized, mythologized, romanticized. This Victorian icon has inspired passionate debate that is unrivalled by any other article of clothing and surpassed as a means of body modification only perhaps by foot binding and female genital mutilation.".
"Summers' book dismantles many of the commonly held misconceptions about the corset. In examining the role of corsetry in the minds and lives of Victorian women, it focuses on how corsetry punished, regulated and sculpted the female form from childhood and adolescence through to pregnancy and even old age. The author reveals how the 'steels and bon...
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Full title
Bound to please : a history of the Victorian corset / Leigh Summers.
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Notes
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Dress, body, culture.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-296) and index.
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N391.42/15
Record Identifier
74VvQLgBaxxZ
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvQLgBaxxZ
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ISBN
185973510X (pbk.)
9781859735305 (cloth)
1859735304 (cloth)
DDC
391.42
391.4209034
391.42094109034
MMS ID
991014532179702626
