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"--

書目詳細資料
主要作者: Bendall, Sarah A. (Author)
格式: Licensed eBooks
語言:英语
出版: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021.
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書本目錄:
  • 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.