TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fields,Jill
TI  - An Intimate Affair: Women, Lingerie, and Sexuality
SN  - 9780520941137
AV  - GT2073 .I585 2007
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Lingerie
KW  - History
KW  - Women's clothing
KW  - Clothing and dress
KW  - Symbolic aspects
KW  - Erotic aspects
KW  - Advertising
KW  - Fashion
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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
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