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The corset in eighteenth and nineteenth century Europe was a
complex and often contradictory social and cultural symbol. It
symbolized both the sensual female body and the chaste virgin; the
female control over male desires, and the male's control over the
female body. Reports of women who have died as a result of the
tightness of their corsets abound in the literature. Medical case
studies provide information on the changes corsets wrought in the
soft tissues of the women who wore them. However, to date, no
systematic studies have been conducted which detail the changes in
the bony pelvis.This study examines the effect of corseting upon
the female pelves of the Spitalfields skeletal collection in order
to determine the changes in pelvic size and shape that may result
from such practices, and the resulting change in fecundity for the
individuals in question. Many historical and present day sources
offer up the corset as the source of infertility, deformation, and
even abortion. This book adds quantitative data on the bony changes
wrought by corseting, and is adrdressed to any scholar of
osteo-archaeology, women's studies or history.
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