Author: Jill Fields
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2007-07-02
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 0520941136
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Intimate apparel, a term in use by 1921, has played a crucial role in the development of the "naughty but nice" feminine ideal that emerged in the twentieth century. Jill Fields's engaging, imaginative, and sophisticated history of twentieth-century lingerie tours the world of women's intimate apparel and arrives at nothing less than a sweeping view of twentieth-century women's history via the undergarments they wore. Illustrated throughout and drawing on a wealth of evidence from fashion magazines, trade periodicals, costume artifacts, Hollywood films, and the records of organized labor, An Intimate Affair is a provocative examination of the ways cultural meanings are orchestrated by the "fashion-industrial complex," and the ways in which individuals and groups embrace, reject, or derive meaning from these everyday, yet highly significant, intimate articles of clothing.
Author: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
Publisher:
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 610
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Norton Juster
Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9781555912505
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The period between the Civil War and the turn of the century was a time of great social upheaval in the United States. Lured by the promises of industrialization, much of the rural population moved to the cities, but those who remained in the countryside were isolated from the rapid changes in American society. Women found themselves torn between the battle for women's rights being hotly debated in the cities and the traditional role of homemaker, mother, and helper that was the norm in rural areas. In A Woman's Place, Norton Juster brings this turbulent period of American history to life using a broad sampling of articles, letters, poems, and essays taken from the popular literature of the time. While these publications recognized the hardship that characterized the lives of their readers, they upheld the idealized vision of the farmer's wife. It is this historical conflict between the independent woman and the traditional female role that makes A Woman's Place important reading today.
Author: Norton Juster
Publisher: Viking
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book brings to life the years between the end of the Civil War and the turn of the century by using a sampling of articles, letters, poems and essays written by and for rural women. It describes the daily life of country women and girls. While these writings reflected the labor and hardship that characterized the lives of most of the publications' readers; yet the editorial stance of these publications continued to idealize the vision of a farmer's wife.
Author: Kristie Lynn
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780897092227
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