Bound to please :
Summers, Leigh.
Bound to please : a history of the Victorian corset / Leigh Summers. - Oxford : Berg, 2001. - 288p. : ill. - Dress, body, culture .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Corsets, and the corseted body, have been fetishized, mythologized, romanticized. This book examines the role of corsetry in the minds and lives of Victorian women.
Specialized.
9781859735305 (hbk.) : £42.99 1859735304 (hbk.) : £42.99 9781859735107 (pbk.) : £15.99 185973510X (pbk.) : £15.99
Corsets--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Women--Social conditions--Great Britain.--19th century
Bound to please : a history of the Victorian corset / Leigh Summers. - Oxford : Berg, 2001. - 288p. : ill. - Dress, body, culture .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Corsets, and the corseted body, have been fetishized, mythologized, romanticized. This book examines the role of corsetry in the minds and lives of Victorian women.
Specialized.
9781859735305 (hbk.) : £42.99 1859735304 (hbk.) : £42.99 9781859735107 (pbk.) : £15.99 185973510X (pbk.) : £15.99
Corsets--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Women--Social conditions--Great Britain.--19th century
