FETISH : FASHION, SEX AND POWER

Steele, Valerie

ISBN 10: 0195090446 / ISBN 13: 9780195090444

Edité par Oxford University Press, New York, 1996

Provocative and comprehensive history of erotic fashion. Illustrated througout with black and white photographs and a full color photograph center section. With selected bibliography. Quarter bound cloth and boards with pictorial dustjacket. New, unread condition in dustjacket. N° de réf. du vendeur 11950

Synopsis :

The word fetishism evokes images of `kinky' sex, involving an abnormal attraction to certain articles of clothing, such as black leather boots, or body parts, like legs and buttocks. Yet the fetish is in fashion - on the catwalks and in the streets. Leather gear, body piercing, second-skin rubber, even the corset, are back; no longer restricted to sexual subcultures but worn by `club kids' and socialites alike. While fetishism has traditionally been regarded by pyschologists as a `perversion', modern fashion has increasingly embraced characteristic fetish-items such as the spiked high-heel shoe.

Fetish: Fashion, Sex, and Power is a historically-grounded study of the relationship between fashion and fetishism. Treating fashion as a symbolic system linked to the expression of sexuality, Steele marshals a dazzling array of evidence from pornography, psychology, and historical literature to illuminate this relationship. Is it fashion or fetish when fashion magazines feature the straps and stilettos of the dominatrix? What of body piercing, either ear rings or those worn through genitals? Is the corset, whether worn by men or women a `style' or a `perversion'.

Steele brilliantly charts the boundaries of the `normal' and the `perverse', and shows how even the most bizarre-seeming clothing fetishes enable their wearers (male and female, gay and straight) to use clothing to express their social and sexual identities.

À propos de l'auteur: An acknowledged authority on the erotic experts of fashion, Valerie Steele is Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : FETISH : FASHION, SEX AND POWER
Éditeur : Oxford University Press, New York
Date d'édition : 1996
Reliure : Hard Cover
Etat : New
Etat de la jaquette : New