Books about Breasts for SEXPO 2023

Recommended titles for SExpo event

Updated June 2, 2023
University of Victoria Libraries  Tina Bebbington, History and Newspaper Librarian, UVic
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Bound to Please : A History of the Victorian Corset
Summers, Leigh.
Paper Book
Corsets, and the corseted body, have been fetishized, mythologized, romanticized. This Victorian icon has inspired more passionate debate than any other article of clothing. As a means of body modification, perhaps only foot binding and female genital mutilation have aroused more controversy....
The corset : a cultural history
Steele, Valerie.
Paper Book
The corset is probably the most controversial garment in the history of fashion. Although regarded as an essential element of fashionable dress from the Renaissance into the twentieth century, the corset was also frequently condemned as an instrument of torture and the cause of ill health...
Fashion and fetishism : a social history of the corset, tight-lacing, and other forms of body-sculpture in the West
Kunzle, David.
Paper Book
An intimate affair : women, lingerie, and sexuality
Fields, Jill
Paper Book
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...
The Metamorphoses of Fat : A History of Obesity
Vigarello, Georges
Ebook
Georges Vigarello maps the evolution of Western ideas about fat and fat people from the Middle Ages to the present, paying particular attention to the role of science, fashion, fitness crazes, and public health campaigns in shaping these views. While hefty bodies were once a sign of power, today...

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