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

By:

Fields, Jill, 1954- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2007.Description: 1 online resource (392 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780520941137
0520941136
9780520223691
0520223691
9780520252615
0520252616

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Intimate affair.DDC classification:

687.22

LOC classification:

GT2073 .F54 2007

Online resources:

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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.

Summary: 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.

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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.