The Corset Controversy
Author(is)ing the Subject in/of Tight-lacing
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12347175 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gretchen Riordan (Macquarie University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 263-273 |
| Publication date | 2007-07-26 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Semiotics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1035-0330 • E-ISSN: 1470-1219 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10350330701448553 |
| OpenAlex | W2095506219 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 5 |
Tight-lacing is the practice of sculpting the torso with corsets. Tight-lacing has always been a contentious practice and this controversy continues today. Despite the trend to focus upon the effects of the corset itself, the corset is not the only apparatus that modifies the tight-laced body. This article argues that both tight-laced bodies and the bodies of the theorists who write about them are constituted in and through debates about tight-lacing—in ways that reflect each theorist's particular investments
Epistemology · Focus (optics · Library science · Physics · Sociology · Subject (documents · Torso · Computer Science · Medicine · Philosophy · Visual Culture and Art Theory · Anatomy
| Citations per year | 0.08 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2014 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |