An Intimate Affair

Women, Lingerie, and Sexuality

By: Jill Fields

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Paperback | 2 July 2007 | Edition Number 1

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Intimate apparel, a term in use by 1921, has played a crucial role in the development of the "naughty but nice" feminine ideal that emerged in the twentieth century. Jill Fields's engaging, imaginative, and sophisticated history of twentieth-century lingerie tours the world of women's intimate apparel and arrives at nothing less than a sweeping view of twentieth-century women's history via the undergarments they wore. Illustrated throughout and drawing on a wealth of evidence from fashion magazines, trade periodicals, costume artifacts, Hollywood films, and the records of organized labor, An Intimate Affair is a provocative examination of the ways cultural meanings are orchestrated by the "fashion-industrial complex," and the ways in which individuals and groups embrace, reject, or derive meaning from these everyday, yet highly significant, intimate articles of clothing.

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"[A] fascinating account."--T: the New York Times Style Magazine "A seminal American feminist history text... The breadth of research and level of theoretical sophistication make it a key reference for any student of women's fashion."--H-Net Reviews

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List of Illustrations	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction. Sexual Foundations	p. 1
Drawers	p. 18
Corsets and Girdles	p. 47
Brassieres	p. 79
The Meaning of Black Lingerie	p. 113
The Invisible Woman: Intimate Apparel Advertising	p. 174
The Production of Glamour: Intimate Apparel Workers and Union Culture	p. 217
Return of the Repressed (Waist), 1947-1952	p. 256
Epilogue. Bra vs. Bra: Feminist Intimate Apparel Art	p. 272
Notes	p. 289
Index	p. 361
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An Intimate Affair

Women, Lingerie, and Sexuality

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