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The corseted skeleton : a bioarchaeology of binding / Rebecca Gibson. by Gibson, Rebecca. Palgrave Macmillan, Springer Nature Switzerland, 2020. Call #: 391.423 G449c Subjects Corsets -- History.   Corsets -- Social aspects.   Corsets -- Health aspects.   Deformities, Artificial.   Human remains (Archaeology) ISBN:  9783030503918 (pbk) Description:  290 p. : ill. : 21 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents:  Chapter 1: Introduction: Shaping the Garment, Shaping the Woman -- Chapter 2: The Corset in our Collective Consciousness: Exotic, Erotic, or Other? -- Chapter 3: The Corset as a Garment: Is it a Representative of Who Wore It? -- Chapter 4: The Corset as Civilization: The Debate on Clothing and Womens Social Wellbeing -- Chapter 5: The Corset as a Killer: Did Corseting Negatively Impact Longevity? -- Chapter 6: Womens Experiences in Life, Death, and Burial: The St. Brides Parish Records -- Chapter 7: The Corseted Skeleton: Skeletal Remains of St. Brides Lower Churchyard -- Chapter 8: Conclusion: Modern Corseting and How We Talk About Todays Women. Summary:  "Unpacking assumptions about corseting, Rebecca Gibson supplements narratives of corseted women from the 18thand 19thcenturies with her seminal work on corset-related skeletal deformation. An undergarment that provided support and shape for centuries, the corset occupies a familiar but exotic space in modern consciousness, created by two sometimes contradictory narrative arcs: the texts that women wrote regarding their own corseting experiences and the recorded opinions of the medical community during the 19th century. Combining these texts with skeletal age data and rib and vertebrae measurements from remains at St. Bride's parish London dating from 1700 to 1900, the author discusses corseting in terms of health and longevity, situates corseting as an everyday practice that crossed urban socio-economic boundaries, and attests to the practice as part of normal female life during the time period Gibson's bioarchaeology of binding is is the first large-scalar, multi-site bioethnography of the corseted woman."--Publisher. Holds:  1   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Home Delivery - HN Adult Nonfiction 391.423 G449c Adult books Item being held Add Copy to MyList

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