Christine Bayles Kortsch, Dress Culture in Late Victorian Fiction: Literacy, Textiles, and Activism
In a bold claim Christine Bayles Kortsch says that “in the Victorian and early Edwardian periods, the primary erogenous zone of the female torso was the waist” (61). For this reason the thesis of her book revolves around the changing shape of women in the period, the items of clothing that created...
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Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens
2015
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| Online toegang: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Samenvatting: | In a bold claim Christine Bayles Kortsch says that “in the Victorian and early Edwardian periods, the primary erogenous zone of the female torso was the waist” (61). For this reason the thesis of her book revolves around the changing shape of women in the period, the items of clothing that created that shape and the dresses that covered that same shape. Her view is that dressmaking and sewing was a special non-verbal discourse between women—one that provided a peculiarly female vocabulary of... |
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