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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/47355141 Title: Bound to please : a history of the Victorian corset Author: Leigh Summers Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2001. ISBN/ISSN: 1859735304 185973510X 9781859735305 9781859735107 OCLC:47355141

  
  

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Bound to please : a history of the Victorian corset

Author:	Leigh Summers
Publisher:	Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2001.
Series:	Dress, body, culture.
Edition/Format:	Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	Corsets, and the corseted body, have been fetishized, mythologized and 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 circumcision. Summers' provocative book dismantles many of the commonly held misconceptions about the corset. 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 bones," which damaged bodies and undermined mental health, were a crucial element in constructing middle-class women as psychologically submissive subjects. Underlying this compelling discussion are issues surrounding the development and expression of juvenile and adult sexuality. While maintaining that the corset was the perfect vehicle through which to police femininity, the author unpacks the myriad ways in which women consciously resisted its restrictions and reveals the hidden, macabre romance of this potent Victorian symbol.  Read more...
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