Fashion and Fetishism: Corsets, Tight-Lacing and Other Forms of Body-Sculpture

Kunzle, David

Fashion and sex have always enjoyed a very close relationship. This history of corsetry and body sculpture shows how this phenomenon is closely bound up with sexual self-expression. It shows how the use of the corset rejected the role of the passive, maternal woman; in Victorian times it was seen by many as a scandalous threat to the social order.

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Kunzle’s seminal socio-historical study unpacks the subversive aesthetics, erotic charge, and cultural anxieties surrounding corsetry and body sculpting.

EAN

9780750938082

Publisher

The History Press Ltd

Published

26 August 2004

Pages

288

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