An intimate affair
Subtitle: women, lingerie, and sexuality
By: Jill Fields.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 375
ISBN-13: 9780520223691; 9780520252615
Subjects: Lingerie -- History; Women's clothing -- History; Clothing and dress -- Symbolic aspects; Clothing and dress -- Erotic aspects; Advertising -- Fashion
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-360) and index.
Table of contents: title: Drawers; title: Corsets and girdles; title: Brassieres; title: The meaning of black lingerie; title: The invisible woman : intimate apparel advertising; title: The production of glamour : intimate apparel workers and union culture; title: Return of the repressed (waist), 1947-1952; title: Epilogue: Bra vs. bra : feminist intimate apparel art.