The Corseted Skeleton

Author : Rebecca Gibson
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030503925
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Corseted Skeleton written by Rebecca Gibson and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-16 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Louise Foxcroft
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1847654584
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Calories and Corsets written by Louise Foxcroft and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2012-01-05 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today we are urged from all sides to slim down and shape up, to shed a few pounds or lose life-threatening stones. The media's relentless obsession with size may be perceived as a twenty-first-century phenomenon, but as award-winning historian Louise Foxcroft shows, we have been struggling with what to eat, when and how much, ever since the Greeks and the Romans first pinched an inch. Meticulously researched, surprising and sometimes shocking, Calories and Corsets tells the epic story of our complicated relationship with food, the fashions and fads of body shape, and how cultural beliefs and social norms have changed over time. Combining research from medical journals, letters, articles and the dieting bestsellers we continue to devour (including one by an octogenarian Italian in the sixteenth century), Foxcroft reveals the extreme and often absurd lengths people will go to in order to achieve the perfect body, from eating carbolic soap to chewing every morsel hundreds of times to a tasteless pulp. This unique and witty history exposes the myths and anxieties that drive today's multi-billion pound dieting industry - and offers a welcome perspective on how we can be healthy and happy in our bodies.

Author : Rebecca Gibson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793641366
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender, Supernatural Beings, and the Liminality of Death written by Rebecca Gibson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender, Supernatural Beings, and the Liminality of Death: Monstrous Males/Fatal Females examines representations of the supernatural dead to demonstrate shifts in the manifestation of gender. Including readings of East Asian detectives/cyborgs, Iranian vampires, and African zombies, among others, This collection offers a multi-faceted look at myth, legend, and popular culture representations of the gendered supernatural from a broad range of international contexts. The contributors show that, as creatures pass through the liminal space of death, their new supernatural forms challenge cultural conceptions of gender, masculinity, and femininity.

Author : Jane Buikstra
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0128099011
Total Pages : 859 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ortner's Identification of Pathological Conditions in Human Skeletal Remains written by Jane Buikstra and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 859 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ortner's Identification of Pathological Conditions in Human Skeletal Remains, Third Edition, provides an integrated and comprehensive treatment of the pathological conditions that affect the human skeleton. As ancient skeletal remains can reveal a treasure trove of information to the modern orthopedist, pathologist, forensic anthropologist, and radiologist, this book presents a timely resource. Beautifully illustrated with over 1,100 photographs and drawings, it provides an essential text and material on bone pathology, thus helping improve the diagnostic ability of those interested in human dry bone pathology. Presents a comprehensive review of the skeletal diseases encountered in archaeological human remains Includes more than 1100 photographs and line drawings illustrating skeletal diseases, including both microscopic and gross features Based on extensive research on skeletal paleopathology in many countries Reviews important theoretical issues on how to interpret evidence of skeletal disease in archaeological human populations

Author : Valerie Steele
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300099533
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Corset written by Valerie Steele and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Korsettets kulturhistorie fra renæssancen til det 20. århundrede

Author : Sarah A. Chrisman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1634500407
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Victorian Secrets written by Sarah A. Chrisman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Sarah A. Chrisman’s twenty-ninth birthday, her husband, Gabriel, presented her with a corset. The material and the design were breathtakingly beautiful, but her mind immediately filled with unwelcome views. Although she had been in love with the Victorian era all her life, she had specifically asked her husband not to buy her a corset—ever. She’d heard how corsets affected the female body and what they represented, and she wanted none of it. However, Chrisman agreed to try on the garment . . . and found it surprisingly enjoyable. The corset, she realized, was a tool of empowerment—not oppression. After a year of wearing a corset on a daily basis, her waist had gone from thirty-two inches to twenty-two inches, she was experiencing fewer migraines, and her posture improved. She had successfully transformed her body, her dress, and her lifestyle into that of a Victorian woman—and everyone was asking about it. In Victorian Secrets, Chrisman explains how a garment from the past led to a change in not only the way she viewed herself, but also the ways she understood the major differences between the cultures of twenty-first-century and nineteenth-century America. The desire to delve further into the Victorian lifestyle provided Chrisman with new insight into issues of body image and how women, past and present, have seen and continue to see themselves.

Author : William Barry Lord
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Corset and the Crinoline written by William Barry Lord and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-02 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an invaluable treatise on corsets and crinoline. Popular mainly in the 1800s, the corset is a woman's tightly fitting undergarment worn to shape the figure, and the crinoline is a stiff petticoat used to hold out a woman's skirt. This work presents the history of these pieces of clothing, their construction, use, and their impact on shaping the body. In addition, the writer aimed to provide the readers with all the essential information about the harm corsets can cause to women's bodies as they mold their waist and restrict their moment for as long as they're wearing them. This work talks about how one can acquire the desirable without causing any injury to the health.

Author : Rebecca Gibson
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030240177
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Desire in the Age of Robots and AI written by Rebecca Gibson and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-08-24 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how science fiction’s portrayal of humanity’s desire for robotic companions influences and reflects changes in our actual desires. It begins by taking the reader on a journey that outlines basic human desires—in short, we are storytellers, and we need the objects of our desire to be able to mirror that aspect of our beings. This not only explains the reasons we seek out differences in our mates, but also why we crave sex and romance with robots. In creating a new species of potential companions, science fiction highlights what we already want and how our desires dictate—and are in return recreated— by what is written. But sex with robots is more than a sci-fi pop-culture phenomenon; it’s a driving force in the latest technological advances in cybernetic science. As such, this book looks at both what we imagine and what we can create in terms of the newest iterations of robotic companionship.

Author : Christina Larsen
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1632506351
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kumihimo Wirework Made Easy written by Christina Larsen and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the gorgeous jewelry that can only be created with kumihimo wirework! Whether new to kumihimo or looking to take your skill to the next level, Kumihimo Wirework Made Easy is the companion you need. Author Christina Larsen will show you how easy it can be to transition from traditional kumihimo materials to wirework with her expert guidance, comprehensive instruction, and inspiring designs. In this must-have resource, you'll find: • A complete guide to understanding wireworking tools and materials specific to kumihimo wirework. • Full step-by-step tutorials for 3 basic kumihimo braid structures perfect for wirework jewelry designs. • Project instructions for 20 inspiring kumihimo wirework designs including earrings, bracelets, and pendants. Kumihimo Wirework Made Easy has everything you need to bring the ancient art of traditional Japanese braiding to your modern jewelry designs.

Author : Tracy Hickman
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 1429955929
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unwept written by Tracy Hickman and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unwept -- the beginning of a spellbinding new trilogy by Tracy Hickman and Laura Hickman bestselling co-creators of Dragonlance and Ravenloft Gamin, Maine, is a remote seaside town where everyone seems to know Ellis Harkington better than she knows herself—but she doesn't remember any of them. Unknown events have robbed Ellis of her memory. Concerned individuals, who claim to be friends and loved ones, insist that she simply needs to recuperate, and that her memories may return in time. But, for her own sake—so they claim—they refuse to divulge what has brought her to this state. Ellis finds herself adrift in a town of ominous mysteries, cryptic hints, and disturbingly familiar strangers. The Nightbirds, a clique of fashionable young men and women, claim her as one of their own, but who can she truly trust? And what of the phantom suitor who visits her in her dreams? Is he a memory, a figment of her imagination, or a living nightmare beyond rational explanation?Only her lost past holds the answers she seeks—if she can uncover its secrets before she falls prey to an unearthly killer. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.