An Intimate Affair: Women, Lingerie, and Sexuality (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520252615)

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.

Author: Jill Fields
ISBN-10: 0520252616
ISBN-13: 9780520252615
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 07/02/2007
Pages: 392
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.37lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.84w x 1.02d