An Intimate Affair
Women, Lingerie, and Sexuality
1st Edition
Published on 2. July 2007
392 pages
978-0-520-94113-7 (ISBN)
Description
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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Jill Fields is Professor of History at California State University, Fresno.
Content
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), 1947-1952
Epilogue: Bra vs. Bra: Feminist Intimate Apparel Art
Notes
Index
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), 1947-1952
Epilogue: Bra vs. Bra: Feminist Intimate Apparel Art
Notes
Index
