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Shaping femininity : foundation garments, the body and women in early modern England

Title
Shaping femininity : foundation garments, the body and women in early modern England / Sarah A Bendall.
Author
Bendall, Sarah A.
Publication
London ; New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021.

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Description
1 online resource.
Subject
  • Foundation garments > England > History
  • Human body > Social aspects > History. > England
  • Women > Physiology > Philosophy
  • Femininity (Philosophy)
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reproduction (note)
  • Electronic reproduction.
Source of Description (note)
  • Description based upon online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed August 16, 2021).
Contents
The foundations of the body: foundation garments and the early modern female silhouette -- The artificial body: courtiers, gentlewomen and disputed visions of femininity, 1560-1650 -- The socially mobile body: consumption of foundation garments by middling and common women, 1560-1650 -- The body makers: making and buying foundation garments in early modern England -- The everyday body: assumptions, tropes and the lived experience -- The sexual body: eroticism, reproduction and control -- The respectable body: rising consumption and the changing sensibilities of late seventeenth-and early eighteenth-century England -- Conclusion: legacies and misconceptions.
ISBN
  • 9781350164130
  • 1350164135
  • 9781350164147
  • 1350164143
  • 9781350164123
  • 1350164127
LCCN
2021005656
OCLC
2021005656
Author
Bendall, Sarah A., author.
Title
Shaping femininity : foundation garments, the body and women in early modern England / Sarah A Bendall.
Publisher
London ; New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
computer
Type of Carrier
online resource
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
Note
Description based upon online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed August 16, 2021).
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Available from home with a valid library card
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EBSCOhost
Other Form:
Print version: Bendall, Sarah A.. Shaping femininity London ; New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021. 9781350164109 (DLC) 2021005655
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