The Corseted Skeleton
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The Corseted Skeleton

A Bioarchaeology of Binding

Rebecca Gibson

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The Corseted Skeleton

A Bioarchaeology of Binding

Rebecca Gibson

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Unpacking assumptions about corseting, Rebecca Gibson supplements narratives of corseted women from the 18 th and 19 th 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. Combiningthese 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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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2020
ISBN
9783030503925
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Sociology
Index
Social Sciences

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    APA 6 Citation

    Gibson, R. (2020). The Corseted Skeleton ([edition unavailable]). Palgrave Macmillan. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/3481972 (Original work published 2020)

    Chicago Citation

    Gibson, Rebecca. (2020) 2020. The Corseted Skeleton. [Edition unavailable]. Palgrave Macmillan. https://www.perlego.com/book/3481972.

    Harvard Citation

    Gibson, R. (2020) The Corseted Skeleton. [edition unavailable]. Palgrave Macmillan. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/3481972 (Accessed: 3 July 2024).

    MLA 7 Citation

    Gibson, Rebecca. The Corseted Skeleton. [edition unavailable]. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. Web. 3 July 2024.