Wendy Burns-Ardolino

Jiggle

(Re)Shaping American Women

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Jiggle spans the fields of women's studies, cultural studies, and media studies as it examines the significance of women's embodied experiece with the most intimate strictures of femininity: foundation garments. Feminist theory of the body, the cultural production and consumption of fashion and beauty cultures, femininity and female subjectivity are woven together to tell the story of how women are shaped physically, culturally, socially and politically by shaping garments.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 361g
• ISBN-13: 9780739112991
• ISBN-10: 0739112996
• Artikelnr.: 23440840

Autorenporträt

By Wendy Burns-Ardolino

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Chapter 1. Not Your Grandma's Girdles
Chapter 3 Chapter 2. Dress Codes: Foundationwear Required Chapter 4 Chapter
3. Boomers and X-ers: Mothers and Daughters Chapter 5 Chapter 4. The Myths
of Freedom and Control: Constructing the Ideal Feminine Form in Advertising
Chapter 6 Chapter 5. Under Cover Agency? Chapter 7 Chapter 6. Minding Our
Bodies: Displacing the Foundations of Femininity Chapter 8 Chapter 7.
Conclusions, and Some Afterthoughts Chapter 9 Appendix A. Telephone Survey
Data Coded Variables & Frequencies Chapter 10 Appendix B. Maidenform
Foundation Garments Survey 1959 Chapter 11 Appendix C. Maidenform "I
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