Fetish: Fashion, Sex and Power

by ValerieSteele (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1995

  $26.12

  This study analyzes the relationship between fashion and fetishism. Treating fashion as a symbolic system linked to the expression of sexuality, it marshals an array of evidence from pornography, psychology and historical literature to illuminate this relationship. Is it fashion or fetish when fashion magazines feature the straps and stilettos of the dominatrix? Is the corset, whether worn by men or women, a style or a perversion ? The author charts the boundaries of the normal and the perverse , and shows how even the most bizarre-seeming clothing fetishes enable their wearers to use clothing to express their social and sexual identities.