Fashion and Eroticism: Ideals of Feminine Beauty from the Victorian Era Through the Jazz Age by Valerie Steele

Fashion and Eroticism: Ideals of Feminine Beauty from the Victorian Era Through the Jazz Age

Valerie Steele

327 pages first pub 1985 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history challenging informative slow-paced

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The traditional image of the Victorian woman presents her as strait-laced and prudish, her clothing an outward sign of her sexual repression and exploitation. This situation supposedly persisted until the Women's Rights Movement and World War I fo...

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