Fashion and Fetishism: Corsets, Tight-lacing and Other Forms of Body Sculpture

by David Kunzle (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2004

  $29.07

  Fashion and sex have always enjoyed a very close relationship. This history of corsetry and body sculpture shows how this phenomenon is closely bound up with sexual self-expression. It shows how the use of the corset rejected the role of the passive, maternal woman; in Victorian times it was seen by many as a scandalous threat to the social order.