Shaping femininity : foundation garments, the body and women in early modern England /
"Utilizing an array of both well known and rarely seen sources, Shaping Femininity explores how 16th and 17th-century foundation garments shaped the dressed female body in early modern England and consequently how enduring notions of western femininity were established"--
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| Natura: | Licensed eBooks |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Visual Arts,
2021.
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| Accesso online: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=3061374 |
Sommario:
- The foundations of the body: foundation garments and the early modern female silhouette
- The artificial body: courtiers, gentlewomen and disputed visions of femininity, 1560-1650
- The socially mobile body: consumption of foundation garments by middling and common women, 1560-1650
- The body makers: making and buying foundation garments in early modern England
- The everyday body: assumptions, tropes and the lived experience
- The sexual body: eroticism, reproduction and control
- The respectable body: rising consumption and the changing sensibilities of late seventeenth-and early eighteenth-century England
- Conclusion: legacies and misconceptions.