Author: STEELE, VALERIE.
Title: The Corset. A Cultural Hstory.
Description: New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2005. 0300099533. Fourth printing. "Why did women continue to wear steel and whalebone corsets for four hundred years? And why did they finally stop? This lavishly illustrated book offers fascinating and often surprising answers to these questions..Drawing on extensive research in textual, visual, and material sources, the auhor disproves the beliefs that the corset was dangerously unhealthy and was primarily for the oppression of women.." 28cms x 23cms x 1.5cms. Pp.viii/199, colour and black & white illustrations throughout. Illustrated stiff card covers. VG.

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