Wendy Burns-Ardolino

Jiggle (eBook, PDF)

(Re)Shaping American Women

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Jiggle: (Re)Shaping American Women explores the relationship between American women and their bodies as mediated by both traditional and contemporary foundation garments. This post-corsetry study begins in the 1930s with a discussion of traditional foundation garments and continues with an analysis of contemporary shapewear as these garments shape women physically, culturally, and socially. Jiggle focuses on the corporate, cultural, and individual practices and meanings of women's experiences with foundation garments. Referencing trade journals, industry data, statistics, advertisements, and telephone surveys and interviews with women, author Wendy Burns-Ardolino examines how the contested terrain of fashion and beauty culture reflect larger cultural power struggles. Jiggle argues that women should not be complicit in alienating themselves from their bodies, but rather should embrace their bodies' multiple capacities as they practice fasion, femininity, and gendered performatives.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216323815
• Artikelnr.: 75143317

Autorenporträt

Wendy Burns-Ardolino is assistant professor and coordinator of integrative studies at Clayton State University, Georgia where she teaches Women's Studies and Media Studies courses.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Chapter 1. Not Your Grandma's Girdles
Chapter 3 Chapter 2. Dress Codes: Foundationwear Required Chapter 4 Chapter
3. Boomers and X-ers: Mothers and Daughters Chapter 5 Chapter 4. The Myths
of Freedom and Control: Constructing the Ideal Feminine Form in Advertising
Chapter 6 Chapter 5. Under Cover Agency? Chapter 7 Chapter 6. Minding Our
Bodies: Displacing the Foundations of Femininity Chapter 8 Chapter 7.
Conclusions, and Some Afterthoughts Chapter 9 Appendix A. Telephone Survey
Data Coded Variables & Frequencies Chapter 10 Appendix B. Maidenform
Foundation Garments Survey 1959 Chapter 11 Appendix C. Maidenform "I
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