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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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An Intimate Affair: Women, Lingerie, and Sexuality

An Intimate Affair: Women, Lingerie, and Sexuality

Fields, Jill

Paperback

BeautyGeneral SociologyGeneral United States History

ISBN10: 0520252616
ISBN13: 9780520252615
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Jul 2 2007
Pages: 392
Weight: 1.37
Height: 1.02 Width: 6.84 Depth: 8.96
Language: English
Intimate apparel, a term in use by 1921, has played a crucial role in the development of the naughty but nice feminine ideal that emerged in the twentieth century. Jill Fields's engaging, imaginative, and sophisticated history of twentieth-century lingerie tours the world of women's intimate apparel and arrives at nothing less than a sweeping view of twentieth-century women's history via the undergarments they wore. Illustrated throughout and drawing on a wealth of evidence from fashion magazines, trade periodicals, costume artifacts, Hollywood films, and the records of organized labor, An Intimate Affair is a provocative examination of 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 highly significant, intimate articles of clothing.

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