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| Title: | Bodies, Stays, Bodices and Busks: The Early Modern Corset and the Performance of Gender and Sexuality in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century England |
| Authors: | Bendall, Sarah Department of History |
| Keywords: | gender sexuality Early Modern England studies of the body women corsets and clothing |
| Issue Date: | Nov-2012 |
| Abstract: | This thesis recovers the early modern corset – ‘bodies’, ‘stays’, ‘bodices’, ‘busks’ - from the fashion history timeline in order to reveal how these material objects and their interaction with the female body formed a central component of gender and sexuality in sixteenth and seventeenth-century England. The corset shaped the torso physically, visually and discursively, inscribing sex and class onto the female body. This thesis argues that corsets and their accessories not only reveal the varying notions of gender and sexuality during this period, but ultimately show how the clothed body ‘performed’ or ‘staged’ culturally-approved notions of femininity and sexual desire. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8815 |
| Department/Unit/Centre: | Department of History |
| Rights and Permissions: | The author retains copyright of this thesis |
| Type of Work: | Thesis, Honours |
| Appears in Collections: | Honours Theses - Department of History |
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