| Descript |
1 online resource |
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Corsets -- History
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Corsets -- Social aspects
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Corsets -- Health aspects
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Deformities, Artificial
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Human remains (Archaeology)
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| Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Contents |
Chapter 1: Introduction: Shaping the Garment, Shaping the Woman -- Chapter 2: The Corset in our Collective Consciousness: Exotic, Erotic, or Other? -- Chapter 3: The Corset as a Garment: Is it a Representative of Who Wore It? -- Chapter 4: The Corset as Civilization: The Debate on Clothing and Womens Social Wellbeing -- Chapter 5: The Corset as a Killer: Did Corseting Negatively Impact Longevity? -- Chapter 6: Womens Experiences in Life, Death, and Burial: The St. Brides Parish Records -- Chapter 7: The Corseted Skeleton: Skeletal Remains of St. Brides Lower Churchyard -- Chapter 8: Conclusion: Modern Corseting and How We Talk About Todays Women |
| Note |
Available to OhioLINK libraries |
| Summary |
Unpacking assumptions about corseting, Rebecca Gibson supplements narratives of corseted women from the 18th and 19th centuries with her seminal work on corset-related skeletal deformation. An undergarment that provided support and shape for centuries, the corset occupies a familiar but exotic space in modern consciousness, created by two sometimes contradictory narrative arcs: the texts that women wrote regarding their own corseting experiences and the recorded opinions of the medical community during the 19th century. Combining these texts with skeletal age data and rib and vertebrae measurements from remains at St. Brides parish London dating from 1700 to 1900, the author discusses corseting in terms of health and longevity, situates corseting as an everyday practice that crossed urban socio-economic boundaries, and attests to the practice as part of normal female life during the time period Gibsons bioarchaeology of binding is is the first large-scalar, multi-site bioethnography of the corseted woman |
| Note |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 16, 2020) |
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Ohio Library and Information Network
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| ISBN |
9783030503925 |
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3030503925 |
| Isn # |
10.1007/978-3-030-50392-5 |
| OCLC # |
1221557879 |
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