Fetish Fashion, Sex and Power |
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| Author:
| Steele, Valerie |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-509044-4 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 1996 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $97.00 |
Book Description:
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`Steele is to fetish dressing what Anne Rice is to vampires.' Christa Worthington, Elle Fetish Fashion, Sex, and Power Valerie Steele Corsets. High heels. Thigh-high leather boots. Tattoos and body piercing. What do they mean? Historically grounded and abundantly illustrated, Fetish: Fashion, Sex, and Power charts the boundaries of the normal and `perverse', showing how even the most unusual clothing fetishes enable their wearers (male and female, gay and straight) to use clothing to...
More Description`Steele is to fetish dressing what Anne Rice is to vampires.' Christa Worthington, Elle Fetish Fashion, Sex, and Power Valerie Steele Corsets. High heels. Thigh-high leather boots. Tattoos and body piercing. What do they mean? Historically grounded and abundantly illustrated, Fetish: Fashion, Sex, and Power charts the boundaries of the normal and `perverse', showing how even the most unusual clothing fetishes enable their wearers (male and female, gay and straight) to use clothing to express their social and sexual identities.