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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Valerie Steele |
ISBN: | 9780300099539 0300099533 0300090714 9780300090710 |
OCLC Number: | 694642160 |
Description: | vii, 199 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm |
Contents: | 1. Steel and whalebone : fashioning the aristocratic body -- 2. Art and nature : corset controversies of the nineteenth century -- 3. Dressed to kill : the medical consequences of corsetry -- 4. Fashion and fetishism : the votaries of tight-lacing -- 5. The satin corset -- 6. The hard body : a muscular corset. |
Responsibility: | Valerie Steele. |
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"This is cultural scholarship and social history at its absolute best." Literary Review "The Corset is at once couture eye candy and intellectually enlightening." WOMEN'S REVIEW OF BOOKS "Obligatory reading for fashion historians." Times Literary Supplement Read more...
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