An Intimate Affair Women, Lingerie, and Sexuality.

Fields, Jill.

An Intimate Affair Women, Lingerie, and Sexuality. - Berkeley : University of California Press, (c)2007. - 1 online resource (392 pages)

Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction. Sexual Foundations; 1. Drawers; 2. Corsets and Girdles; 3. Brassieres; 4. The Meaning of Black Lingerie; 5. The Invisible Woman: Intimate Apparel Advertising; 6. The Production of Glamour: Intimate Apparel Workers and Union Culture; 7. Return of the Repressed (Waist), 19471952; Epilogue. Bra vs. Bra: Feminist Intimate Apparel Art; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.

Presents the history of twentieth-century lingerie. This book examines the ways cultural meanings are orchestrated by the 'fashion-industrial complex, ' and the ways in which individuals and groups embrace, reject, or derive meaning from these everyday, yet significant, intimate articles of clothing.



9780520941137


Lingerie--History.
Women's clothing--History.
Clothing and dress--Symbolic aspects.
Clothing and dress--Erotic aspects.
Advertising--Fashion.


Electronic Books.

GT2073 / .I585 2007