An intimate affair : women, lingerie, and sexuality / Jill Fields.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fields, Jill, 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lingerie--History.

Lingerie.

Women's clothing--History.

Women's clothing.

Clothing and dress--Symbolic aspects.

Clothing and dress.

Clothing and dress--Erotic aspects.

Advertising--Fashion.

Advertising.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (392 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

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

Notes:

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

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9786612360114

9781282360112

1282360116

9780520941137

0520941136

OCLC:

609849905