Shaping Femininity – Sarah A. Bendall

Awarded Highly Commended in the 2022 Society for Renaissance Studies Biannual Book Prize (UK) In sixteenth and seventeenth-century England, the female silhouette underwent a dramatic change. This very structured form, created using garments called bodies and farthingales, existed in various extremes in Western Europe and beyond, in the form of stays, corsets, hoop petticoats and…

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Shaping Femininity: Foundation Garments, the Body and Women in Early Modern England: Sarah A. Bendall: Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Shaping Femininity: Foundation Garments, the Body and Women in Early Modern England: Sarah A. Bendall: Bloomsbury Visual Arts

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Shaping Femininity: Foundation Garments, the Body and Women in Early Modern England by Sarah Bendall (Australian Catholic University, Australia), 9781350164109

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Dr Sarah Bendall: Were corsets really that bad to wear?

Sarah Bendall, Shaping Femininity: Foundation Garments, the Body, & Women in Early Modern England

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