Fetish : fashion, sex, and power / Valerie Steele.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.Description: viii, 243 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0195090446
- 9780195090444
- 0195115791
- 9780195115796
- 306.77 20
- GT511 .S84 1996
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-234) and index.
What is fetishism? -- Fashion and fetishism -- The corset -- Shoes -- Underwear -- Second skin -- Fashion, fetish, fantasy.
The concept of fetishism has recently assumed a growing importance in critical thinking about the cultural construction of sexuality. Yet until now no scholar with an in-depth knowledge of fashion history has studied the actual clothing fetishes themselves. Nor has there been a serious exploration of the historical relationship between fashion and fetishism, although erotic styles have changed significantly and "sexual chic" has become increasingly conspicuous. Marshalling a dazzling array of evidence from pornography, psychology, and history, as well as interviews with individuals involved in sexual fetishism, sadomasochism, and cross-dressing, Steele illuminates the complex relationship between appearance and identity. Based on years of research, her book Fetish: Fashion, Sex & Power explains how a paradigm shift in attitudes toward sex and gender has given rise to the phenomenon of fetish fashion.
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