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The Corseted Skeleton: A Bioarchaeology of Binding

Autor Rebecca Gibson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 noi 2020
Unpacking assumptions about corseting, Rebecca Gibson supplements narratives of corseted women from the 18th and 19th centuries 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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783030503918
ISBN-10: 3030503917
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: XV, 290 p. 45 illus., 44 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2020
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

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 Women’s Social Wellbeing
Chapter 5: The Corset as a Killer: Did Corseting Negatively Impact Longevity?
Chapter 6: Women’s Experiences in Life, Death, and Burial: The St. Bride’s Parish Records Chapter 7: The Corseted Skeleton: Skeletal Remains of St. Bride’s Lower Churchyard
Chapter 8: Conclusion: Modern Corseting and How We Talk About Today’s Women

Notă biografică

Rebecca Gibson, PhD, is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame, USA.  She is the author of Desire in the Age of Robots and AI: Investigations in Science Fiction and Fact (Palgrave, 2020).

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"The Corseted Skeleton: A Bioarchaeology of Binding is a fascinating journey into, and entanglement with, the practices of bodyscape and agency. This book is a wonderfully engaging act of scholarship that synthesizes osteological, archeological, anthropological, gendered and historical perspectives, weaving them into a robust narrative about bodies, agency, materials, and society." 
—Agustín Fuentes, Professor of Anthropology, Princeton University, USA
“In this important contribution, Gibson shows how bioarchaeology can be historical, theoretical, and relevant to modern discourse.  Alongside stunning skeletal images and osteobiographies, she details a history of corseting, fashion, and women’s agency usually overlooked in both historical and modern times.  Her integration of social theory, archival history, and bodies pushes us to consider our own modern assumptions about how skeletons are ‘made.’” 
—Meredith A.B. Ellis, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Florida Atlantic University, USA, and author of The Children of Spring Street: The Bioarchaeology of Childhood in a 19th Century Abolitionist Congregation (2019)
Unpacking assumptions about corseting, Rebecca Gibson supplements narratives of corseted women from the 18th and 19th centuries 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. 

Caracteristici

Presents the first bioarchaeological investigation of skeletal changes due to corseting, using data drawn from skeletal remains from 1700 to 1900
Challenges popular consensus on corsets by demonstrating that corseting at times promoted female agency and provided a means of self-protection
Provides a multidisciplinary consideration of the corset bridging anthropology, history, fashion studies, gender studies, and other areas
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