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UNINA9910822169003321 |
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Autore |
Fields Jill <1954-> |
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Titolo |
An intimate affair : women, lingerie, and sexuality / / Jill Fields |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2007 |
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ISBN |
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9786612360114 |
1-282-36011-6 |
0-520-94113-6 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (392 pages) : illustrations |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Lingerie - History |
Women's clothing - History |
Clothing and dress - Symbolic aspects |
Clothing and dress - Erotic aspects |
Advertising - Fashion |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-360) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Sexual Foundations -- 1. Drawers -- 2. Corsets and Girdles -- 3. Brassieres -- 4. The Meaning of Black Lingerie -- 5. The Invisible Woman: Intimate Apparel Advertising -- 6. The Production of Glamour: Intimate Apparel Workers and Union Culture -- 7. Return of the Repressed (Waist), 1947-1952 -- Epilogue. Bra vs. Bra: Feminist Intimate Apparel Art -- Notes -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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which individuals and groups embrace, reject, or derive meaning from these everyday, yet highly significant, intimate articles of clothing. |
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