Shaping Femininity

Shaping Femininity

Foundation Garments, the Body and Women in Early Modern England

Bendall, Sarah

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

11/2021

352

Mole

Inglês

9781350164109

15 a 20 dias

960

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Acknowledgements
Notes to the Reader
Abbreviations

Introduction
1. The foundations of the body: foundation garments and the early modern female silhouette
2. The artificial body: courtiers, gentlewomen and disputed visions of femininity, 1560-1650
3. The socially mobile body: consumption of foundation garments by middling and common women, 1560 - 1650
4. The body makers: making and buying foundation garments in early modern England
5. The everyday body: assumptions, tropes and the lived experience
6. The sexual body: eroticism, reproduction and control
7. The respectable body: rising consumption and the changing sensibilities of late seventeenth-and early eighteenth-century England
Conclusion: legacies and misconceptions

Glossary
Notes
Selected Bibliography
List of Illustrations
Index
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