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Fashion and Fetishism | |||
| Corsets, Tight-Lacing and Other Forms of Body Sculpture | Social Studies | |||
| David Kunzle | ||||
| Sutton 2004 386 pages | ||||
| Hardback 0750938080 Illus | ||||
| Published Price £20.00 | Slightly off-mint | Our Price £7.99 | ||
| In 1888, The Family Doctor reported that 'the compression of the female waist in Britain totals 134 miles'. With the corset's recent return to fashion, David Kunzle reflects on its subversive power, from ancient Crete to its 19th-century heyday and Jean-Paul Gaultier's creations. He challenges the image of the corset as a symbol of Victorian repression, drawing on medical literature, novels and magazines to reveal how it is bound up with sexual and social self-expression. | ||||
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