An intimate affair : women, lingerie, and sexuality

Author

Fields, Jill, 1954-

Title

An intimate affair : women, lingerie, and sexuality / Jill Fields.

Format

Book

Published

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007.

Description

xvi, 375 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

URL

<Table of contents only> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0616/2006021747.html
<Publisher description> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0702/2006021747-d.html
<Contributor biographical information> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0735/2006021747-b.html

Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-360) and index.

Contents

• List of illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction : Sexual foundations
• 1. Drawers
• 2. Corsets and girdles
• 3. Brassieres
• 4. The meaning of black lingerie
• 5. The invisible woman : intimate apparel advertising
• 6. The production of glamour : intimate apparel workers and union culture
• 7. Return of the repressed (waist), 1947-1952
• Epilogue : Bra vs. bra : feminist intimate apparel art
• Notes
• Index.

Kinsey subjects

Underwear.
Bras.
Corsets.
Panties.
Slips.
Fetishism.
Fetishism in art.

ISBN

9780520223691 (alk. paper)
0520223691 (alk. paper)
9780520252615 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0520252616 (pbk. : alk. paper)