An Intimate Affair : Women, Lingerie, and Sexuality /

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Presents the history of twentieth-century lingerie. This book examines 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 significant, intimate articles o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fields, Jill, 1954- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2007.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Women's clothing.
Lingerie.
Clothing and dress > Symbolic aspects.
Clothing and dress > Erotic aspects.
Advertising > Fashion.
HISTORY > United States > General.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Technical & Manufacturing Industries & Trades.
Mode > Publicite.
Vêtements de femme > Histoire.
Lingerie (Vêtements) > Histoire.
Women's clothing > History.
Lingerie > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Description
Summary:Presents the history of twentieth-century lingerie. This book examines 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 significant, intimate articles of clothing.
Physical Description:1 online resource (392 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780520941137

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