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Fetish: Fashion, Sex, and Power
Valerie Steele
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Description for Fetish: Fashion, Sex, and Power
Paperback. For over 30 years, the iconography of sexual fetishism has been increasingly assimilated into popular culture. This book explains how a paradigm shift in attitudes toward sex and gender has given rise to the phenomenon of fetish fashion. Num Pages: 280 pages, colour and halftone illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFCK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 253 x 180 x 15. Weight in Grams: 512.
Kinky boots, corsets, underwear as outerwear, second-skin garments of rubber and leather, uniforms, body piercing. Today everything from a fetishist's dream appears on the fashion runways. Although some people regard fetish fashion as exploitative and misogynistic, others interpret it as a positive Amazonian statement-couture Catwoman. But the connection between fashion and fetishism goes far beyond a few couture collections. For the past thirty years, the iconography of sexual fetishism has been increasingly assimilated into popular culture. Before Michelle Pfeiffer's Catwoman, there was Mrs. Peel, heroine of the 1960s television show The Avengers, who wore a black leather ... Read more
Kinky boots, corsets, underwear as outerwear, second-skin garments of rubber and leather, uniforms, body piercing. Today everything from a fetishist's dream appears on the fashion runways. Although some people regard fetish fashion as exploitative and misogynistic, others interpret it as a positive Amazonian statement-couture Catwoman. But the connection between fashion and fetishism goes far beyond a few couture collections. For the past thirty years, the iconography of sexual fetishism has been increasingly assimilated into popular culture. Before Michelle Pfeiffer's Catwoman, there was Mrs. Peel, heroine of the 1960s television show The Avengers, who wore a black leather ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Number of pages
251
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
Weight
511g
Number of Pages
252
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195115796
SKU
V9780195115796
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Ref
99-1
About Valerie Steele
An acknowledged authority on the erotic experts of fashion, Valerie Steele is Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York.
Reviews for Fetish: Fashion, Sex, and Power
Steele is to fetish dressing what Anne Rice is to vampires.
Christa Worthington, Elle
Christa Worthington, Elle