Feminine Ideal

by Marianne Thesander

Why, at a time when women's liberation was gaining force and momentum, did the corset become more cinched and restricting than at any time during the entire preceding century? Why was bra burning a political statement for the feminists of the 1970s? How far is the harnessed and restricted female form an outward symbol of Victorian and middle-class ideas of discipline and self-control? In what ways are women forced to conform to a "feminine ideal"?...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1861890044
• ISBN13: 9781861890047
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.6"