【图书简介】 What do the thousands of images of bras and panties on perfectly sculpted bodies that we see spread across billboards and magazines say about our society？ Many women indulge in lingerie to please men. Yet， since Antiquity，women have always kept lingerie hidden away under outer garments. Thus，lingerie must be more than erotic bait. Authors Muriel Barbier and Shazia Boucher have researched iconography to explore the relationship of lingerie to society， the economy and the corridors of intimacy. They correlate lingerie with emancipation， querying whether it asserts newfound freedoms or simply adjusts to conform to changing social values. The result is a rigorous scientific rationale spiced with a zestly humour. And the tinier lingerie gets， the more scholarly attention the authors believe it deserves.
【本书目录】 Preface by Chantal Thomass Introduction Underwear and fashion Lingerie, corsetry and hosiery How underwear began to allow the silhouette evolve From Ancient Greece to modern woman. what have they been wearing under their clothes Materials Colours Underwear and Society Stages of life Caring for linen A woman's private life and clothing Contradictory arguments about trousers for women and the corset Sports' underwear Eroticism, seduction and fetishism The eroticism of women's underwear Seductive and sexy underwear Fetishism and women "s underwear, from private clubs to the catwalk Economics Lingerie manuJacturing The current lingerie market Underwear on top Conclusion Glossary Technical and general terms Terms specific to underwear Notes Bibliography Acknowledgements
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