![]() ![]() Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-194) and index.Īccess to electronic resources restricted to Simmons University students, faculty and staff. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. It also discusses the cultural history of the corset, demolishing myths and revealing its significance.ġ online resource (vii, 199 pages) : illustrations (some color) ![]() This study explores why women continued to don steel and whalebone corsets for 400 years, and why they finally stopped. The corset is one of the most controversial garments in fashion history. The Satin Corset: An Erotic Iconography 6. Fashion and Fetishism: The Votaries of Tight-Lacing 5. Dressed to Kill: The Medical Consequences of Corsetry 4. In The Corset: A Cultural History, Valerie Steele. THIRD-WAVE FEMINISTS WAVing copies of Naomi Wolf's The Beauty Myth once proclaimed that men had hatched an ominous conspiracy to trick women into pursuing an impossible beauty ideal rather than real social progress. Art and Nature: Corset Controversies of the Nineteenth Century 3. THE CORSET A Cultural History by Valerie Steele Yale University Press, 39.95. Steel and Whalebone: Fashioning the Aristocratic Body 2. ![]()
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