Jiggle: (Re)Shaping American Women

by Wendy Burns-Ardolino and Burns-Ardolino Wendy

Book Overview

Jiggle spans the fields of women's studies, cultural studies, and media studies as it examines the significance of women's embodied experiece with the most intimate strictures of femininity: foundation garments. Feminist theory of the body, the cultural production and consumption of fashion and beauty cultures, femininity and female subjectivity are woven together to tell the story of how women are shaped physically, culturally, socially and politically...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739112996
• ISBN13: 9780739112991
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.0"