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An intimate affair : women, lingerie, and sexuality / Jill Fields.
Author
Fields, Jill, 1954-
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Berkeley : University of California Press, 2007.
Description
1 online resource (392 pages) : illustrations
Availability
Available Online
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Subject(s)
Lingerie
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History
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Women's clothing
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History
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Clothing and dress
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Symbolic aspects
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Clothing and dress
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Erotic aspects
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Advertising
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Fashion
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Summary note
Presents the history of twentieth-century lingerie. This book examines the ways cultural meanings are orchestrated by the 'fashion-industrial complex, ' and the ways in which individuals and groups embrace, reject, or derive meaning from these everyday, yet significant, intimate articles of clothing.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-360) and index.
Source of description
Print version record.
Contents
Introduction: sexual foundations
Drawers
Corsets and girdles
Brassieres
The meaning of black lingerie
The invisible woman: intimate apparel advertising
The production of glamour: intimate apparel workers and union culture
Return of the repressed (waist), 1947-1952
Epilogue: Bra vs. Bra: feminist intimate apparel art.
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ISBN
9780520941137 ((electronic bk.))
0520941136 ((electronic bk.))
9780520223691 ((alk. paper))
0520223691 ((alk. paper))
9780520252615 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
0520252616 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
9786612360114
6612360119
LCCN
2006021747
OCLC
609849905
Other standard number
9786612360114
Doi
10.1525/9780520941137
Statement on language in description
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