Fields, Jill, 1954-

An intimate affair : women, lingerie, and sexuality / Jill Fields. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007. - xvi, 375 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-360) and index.

Drawers -- Corsets and girdles -- Brassieres -- The meaning of black lingerie -- The invisible woman : intimate apparel advertising -- The production of glamour : intimate apparel workers and union culture -- Return of the repressed (waist), 1947-1952 -- Epilogue: Bra vs. bra : feminist intimate apparel art.

9780520223691 (alk. paper) 0520223691 (alk. paper) 9780520252615 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0520252616 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2006021747

GBA736775 bnb

013745937 Uk


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

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