The corseted skeleton : a bioarchaeology of binding / Rebecca Gibson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gibson, Rebecca, 1981- author.

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Corsets--History.

Corsets.

Corsets--Social aspects.

Corsets--Health aspects.

Deformities, Artificial.

Human remains (Archaeology).

Social aspects.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xv, 290 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.

Summary:

Studies corsets from four museum collections (Victoria and Albert, Fashion Museum in Bath, St. Fagan's Museum in Cardiff, and the National Museum of Scotland), skeletal remains from two collections (St. Bride's churchyard, London and the Musée de l'Homme in Paris), and doctors' reports and letters from corset wearers.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Shaping the Garment, Shaping the Woman

2. The Corset in Our Collective Consciousness: Exotic, Erotic, or Other?

3. The Corset as a Garment: Is It a Representative of Who Worelt?

4. The Corset as Civilization: The Debate on Clothing and Women's Social Wellbeing

5. The Corset as a Killer: Did Corseting Negatively Impact Longevity?

6. Women's Experiences in Life, Death, and Burial: The St. Bride's Parish Records

7. The Corseted Skeleton: Skeletal Remains of St. Bride's Lower Churchyard

8. Modern Corseting and How We Talk About Today's Women.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9783030503918

3030503917

OCLC:

1197760710

Publisher Number:

99988375654