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- An Intimate Affair: Women, Lingerie, and Sexuality
- Book
- 2007
- Published by: University of California Press
summary
Intimate apparel, a term in use by 1921, has played a crucial role in the development of the "naughty but nice" feminine ideal that emerged in the twentieth century. Jill Fields's engaging, imaginative, and sophisticated history of twentieth-century lingerie tours the world of women's intimate apparel and arrives at nothing less than a sweeping view of twentieth-century women's history via the undergarments they wore. Illustrated throughout and drawing on a wealth of evidence from fashion magazines, trade periodicals, costume artifacts, Hollywood films, and the records of organized labor, An Intimate Affair is a provocative examination of the ways cultural meanings are orchestrated by the "fashion-industrial complex," and the ways in which individuals and groups embrace, reject, or derive meaning from these everyday, yet highly significant, intimate articles of clothing.
Table of Contents
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- List of Illustrations
- pp. ix-xi
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xiii-xvi
- Introduction. Sexual Foundations
- pp. 1-17
- 1. Drawers
- pp. 18-46
- 2. Corsets and Girdles
- pp. 47-78
- 3. Brassieres
- pp. 79-112
- 4. The Meaning of Black Lingerie
- pp. 113-173
Additional Information
ISBN
9780520941137
Related ISBN(s)
9780520252615
MARC Record
OCLC
711603263
Pages
392
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No