Author: David Kunzle

Publisher: The History Press

Published: 2006-08-24

Total Pages: 493

ISBN-13: 0752495453

Presenting the history of corsetry and body sculpture, this edition shows how the relationship between fashion and sex is closely bound up with sexual self-expression. It demonstrates how the use of the corset rejected the role of the passive, maternal woman, so that in Victorian times it was seen as a scandalous threat to the social order.