Fashion and Eroticism: Ideals of Feminine Beauty from the Victorian Era Through the Jazz Age

by Valerie Steele

The traditional image of the Victorian woman presents her as strait-laced and prudish, her clothing an outward sign of her sexual repression and exploitation. This situation supposedly persisted until the Women's Rights Movement and World War I forced the world to acknowledge that women were liberated individuals with legs. Yet Valerie steele demonstrates that eroticism formed the basis for the Victorian ideal of feminine beauty and fashion--indeed,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195035305
• ISBN13: 9780195035308
• Release Date: May 1985
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 327 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.