Shaping Femininity: Foundation Garments, the Body and Women in Early Modern England - Couverture souple

Bendall, Sarah A.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1350164100 ISBN 13 : 9781350164109

Editeur : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021

Synopsis

Highly Commended, Society for Renaissance Studies Biennial Book Prize 2022

In sixteenth and seventeenth-century England, the female silhouette underwent a dramatic change. This very structured form, created using garments called bodies and farthingales, existed in various extremes in Western Europe and beyond, in the form of stays, corsets, hoop petticoats and crinolines, right up until the twentieth century. With a nuanced approach that incorporates a stunning array of visual and written sources and drawing on transdisciplinary methodologies, Shaping Femininity explores the relationship between material culture and femininity by examining the lives of a wide range of women, from queens to courtiers, farmer's wives and servants, uncovering their lost voices and experiences. It reorients discussions about female foundation garments in English and wider European history, arguing that these objects of material culture began to shape and define changing notions of the feminine bodily ideal, social status, sexuality and modesty in the early modern period, influencing enduring Western notions of femininity.

Beautifully illustrated in full colour throughout, Shaping Femininity is the first large-scale exploration of the materiality, production, consumption and meanings of women's foundation garments in sixteenth and seventeenth-century England. It offers a fascinating insight into dress and fashion in the early modern period, and offers much of value to all those interested in the history of early modern women and gender, material culture and consumption, and the history of the body, as well as curators and reconstructors.

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À propos de l'auteur

Sarah A. Bendall is Senior Lecturer at the Gender and Women's History Research Centre, Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, Australian Catholic University. She is the author of Shaping Femininity (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021), which was shortlisted for the UK Society for Renaissance Studies biannual book prize in 2022, and co-editor of Embodied Experiences of Making in Early Modern Europe: Bodies, Gender, and Material Culture (2024).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1350164100
• ISBN 13: 9781350164109
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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