Bound to please : a history of the Victorian corset / Leigh Summers.

By: Series: Dress, body, culturePublication details: Oxford : Berg, 2001.Description: 288p. : illISBN:
  • 9781859735305 (hbk.) :
  • 1859735304 (hbk.) :
  • 9781859735107 (pbk.) :
  • 185973510X (pbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 21
Summary: 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.
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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.

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