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The Corseted Skeleton - A Bioarchaeology of Binding (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
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The Corseted Skeleton - A Bioarchaeology of Binding (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
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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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