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Subtitle: a history of the Victorian corset
By: Leigh Summers.
Series: Dress, body, culture
Publisher: Berg; Berg Publishers
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
Subjects: Corsets.; Body, Human -- Social aspects.; Costume -- History -- 19th century.
Description: Corsets, and the corseted body, have been fetishized, mythologized, romanticized. This book examines the role of corsetry in the minds and lives of Victorian women.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.