ISBN:
9781350164130
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 342 Seiten)
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Illustrationen
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Bendall, Sarah A. Shaping femininity
DDC:
391/.20942
Keywords:
Electronic books
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England
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Damenmode
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Körper
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Einschnürung
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Körperbild
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Weiblichkeit
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Frauenbild
;
Geschichte 1560-1650
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Unterwäsche
;
Korsett
;
Korsage
;
Geschichte 1560-1650
;
England
;
Frau
;
Kunst
;
Geschichte 1560-1650
Abstract:
Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes to the reader -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction Investigating the structured female body -- Gender and the dressed body -- Making, consumption and meaning: examining women's lives through material culture -- Experimental history and the embodied turn -- Chapter outline -- 1 The foundations of the body Foundation garments and the early modern female silhouette -- Women's structural fashions before the mid-sixteenth century -- The sculptural body: the Elizabethan and Jacobean silhouette -- The softer body: the superficial relaxation of the Caroline silhouette -- Ambiguous bodies: underwear, outerwear and the Restoration silhouette -- Conclusion -- 2 The artificial body Courtiers, gentlewomen and disputed visions of femininity, 1560-1650 -- Shaping the aristocratic body -- Critiques of fashion and the artificial body -- Anti-court sentiments and disputed visions of femininity -- Conclusion -- 3 The socially mobile body Consumption of foundation garments by middling and common women, 1560-1650 -- Evidence of consumption of foundation garments by the middling and common sorts -- Affordability and modes of consumption -- Foundation garments and upward social mobility -- Conclusion -- 4 The body makers Commissioning and making foundation garments in early modern England -- The body-making and farthingale-making trades -- Commissioning and buying foundation garments: interactions between consumers and artisans -- Making and observation: the evolution in design and tacit skills of body-makers -- Making and experimentation: recovering the artisanal knowledge of farthingale-makers -- Conclusion -- 5 The everyday body Assumptions, tropes and the lived experience -- The life cycle, disease and deformity -- Bodies: movement and everyday life.
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