An intimate affair : women, lingerie, and sexuality / Jill Fields.

Author
Fields, Jill, 1954- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Berkeley : University of California Press, 2007.
Description
1 online resource (392 pages) : illustrations

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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.
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
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