An intimate affair : women, lingerie, and sexuality / / Jill Fields

• Autore: Fields Jill <1954->
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (392 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 391.4/209
• Soggetto topico: Lingerie - History; Women's clothing - History; Clothing and dress - Symbolic aspects; Clothing and dress - Erotic aspects; Advertising - Fashion
• Soggetto non controllato: 20th century american culture; 20th century womens history; american feminist; black lingerie; bra; brassieres; clothing; corsets; cultural studies; drawers; everyday clothing; fashion and clothing; fashion industrial complex; fashion magazines; feminine ideal; feminism; feminist theory; gender studies; girdles; intimate apparel advertising; intimate apparel workers; intimate apparel; sex and gender; sexual foundations; sexual; sexuality; social history; undergarments; underwear; union culture; womens fashion
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-360) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: An intimate affair
• ISBN: 9786612360114; 1-282-36011-6; 0-520-94113-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910778073003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II