Fashion and sex have always enjoyed a very close relationship. This history of corsetry and body sculpture shows how this phenomenon is closely bound up with sexual self-expression. It shows how the use of the corset rejected the role of the passive, maternal woman; in Victorian times it was seen by many as a scandalous threat to the social order.
- ISBN10 0847662764
- ISBN13 9780847662760
- Publish Date 1 January 1982
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 July 2000
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Rowman & Littlefield
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 383
- Language English