ISBN:
9781350164147
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9781350164123
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:
Foundation garments History
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Human body Social aspects
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History
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Women Physiology
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Philosophy
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Femininity (Philosophy)
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History of fashion
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Geschichte 1560-1650
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England
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Damenmode
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Frauenbild
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Weiblichkeit
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Körper
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Körperbild
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Geschichte 1560-1650
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Geschichte 1560-1650
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England
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Frau
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Kunst
Abstract:
List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on the Text -- Introduction -- 1. The Material and Metaphorical Body: Foundation Garments and the Female Body -- 2. The Artificial Body: The Court, its Critics and Disputed Visions of Femininity in Elizabethan and Early Stuart England -- 3. The Mobile Body: Shaping the Ambitions of the Middling and Common Sorts -- 4. The Body Makers: Making and Buying Foundation Garments in Early Modern England -- 5. The Everyday Body: Health, Physicality and the Lived Experience -- 6. The Sexual Body: Eroticism, Reproduction and Control -- 7. The Respectable Body: Changing Sensibilities of Consumption in late Seventeenth-Century England -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
"Shaping Femininity is the first large-scale study of the materiality, production, consumption and meanings of foundation garments for women in 16th and 17th-century England, when the female silhouette underwent a dramatic change. With a nuanced approach that incorporates transdisciplinary methodologies and a stunning array of visual and written sources, the book reorients discussions about female foundation garments in English and wider European history. It argues that these objects of material culture, such as bodies, busks, farthingales and bum-rolls, shaped understandings of the female body and of beauty, social status, health, sexuality and modesty in early modern England, and thus influenced enduring western notions of femininity. Beautifully illustrated in full colour throughout, this book offers a fascinating insight into dress and fashion in the early modern period, and offers much of value to all those interested in the history of early modern women and gender, material culture, and the history of the body, as well as curators and reconstructors."--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
DOI:
10.5040/9781350164147
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