Dress Reform as Antifeminism: A Response to Helene E. Roberts's "The Exquisite Slave: The Role of Clothes in the Making of the Victorian Woman"

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Previous articleNext article No AccessDress Reform as Antifeminism: A Response to Helene E. Roberts's "The Exquisite Slave: The Role of Clothes in the Making of the Victorian Woman"David KunzleDavid Kunzle Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Signs Volume 2, Number 3Spring, 1977 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/493388 Views: 40Total views on this site Citations: 26Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1977 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Alanna McKnight The Kurious Kase of Kim Kardashian's Korset, Fashion Studies 3, no.11 (Nov 2020).https://doi.org/10.38055/FS030110Loretta Clayton No Room for the “Woman of Fashion”: Male Authorship, Anti-fashion, and Wilkie Collins’ The Woman in White, (Feb 2020): 181–205.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26898-5_8Maria Carolina Zanette, Daiane Scaraboto From the corset to Spanx: shapewear as a marketplace icon, Consumption Markets & Culture 22, no.22 (Jul 2018): 183–199.https://doi.org/10.1080/10253866.2018.1497988Michelle Hill Hoop Mania: Fashion, Identity, and Religious Condemnation in Nineteenth-Century Utah, Utah Historical Quarterly 85, no.22 (Apr 2017): 127–144.https://doi.org/10.5406/utahhistquar.85.2.0127Casey Sloan POSSESSING DRESSES: FASHION AND FEMALE COMMUNITY IN THE WOMAN IN WHITE, Victorian Literature and Culture 44, no.0404 (Nov 2016): 801–816.https://doi.org/10.1017/S106015031600022XAgata Łukasza Glamour, kobiecość, widowisko. Aktorka jako obiekt pożądania, (Jan 2016).https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323524403Tara Puri FABRICATING INTIMACY: READING THE DRESSING ROOM IN VICTORIAN LITERATURE, Victorian Literature and Culture 41, no.33 (Sep 2013): 503–525.https://doi.org/10.1017/S1060150313000077 Reviews, Nineteenth-Century Contexts 27, no.11 (Jan 2005): 99–113.https://doi.org/10.1080/08905490500133196Patricia C. Warner Feminism and Costume History: Synthesis and Reintegration, Clothing and Textiles Research Journal 18, no.33 (Jul 2016): 185–189.https://doi.org/10.1177/0887302X0001800308Alex Goody Ladies of fashion/ modern(ist) women: Mina Loy and Djuna Barnes, Women: A Cultural Review 10, no.33 (Dec 1999): 266–282.https://doi.org/10.1080/09574049908578399 Introduction, (Jan 1999): 1–40.https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822399032-001 Celebrity and Glamour, (Jan 1999): 41–64.https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822399032-002 Chorus Girls, New Women, True Bodies, (Jan 1999): 65–88.https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822399032-003 Costume and Choreography, (Jan 1999): 89–108.https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822399032-004 Racialized, Glorified American Girls, (Jan 1999): 109–135.https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822399032-005 The Ziegfeld Girl and Hollywood Cinema, (Jan 1999): 136–190.https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822399032-006 Epilogue, (Jan 1999): 191–199.https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822399032-007 Notes, (Jan 1999): 201–224.https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822399032-008 Select Bibliography, (Jan 1999): 225–233.https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822399032-009Nancy V. Workman From Victorian to Victoria's Secret: The Foundations of Modern Erotic Wear, The Journal of Popular Culture 30, no.22 (Sep 1996): 61–73.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0022-3840.1996.00061.xJill Fields Three Sides to Every Story: The Material Culture of Intimate Apparel, Dress 23, no.11 (Jul 2013): 75–86.https://doi.org/10.1179/036121196805298126Jihang Park Sport, dress reform and the emancipation of women in Victorian England: a reappraisal, The International Journal of the History of Sport 6, no.11 (Mar 2007): 10–30.https://doi.org/10.1080/09523368908713675Carolyn Balkwell On Peacocks and Peahens: A Cross-Cultural Investigation of the Effects of Economic Development on Sex Differences in Dress, Clothing and Textiles Research Journal 4, no.22 (Jul 2016): 30–36.https://doi.org/10.1177/0887302X8600400205Mel Davies Corsets and Conception: Fashion and Demographic Trends in the Nineteenth Century, Comparative Studies in Society and History 24, no.44 (Jun 2009): 611–641.https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417500010203Karl Figlio Chlorosis and Chronic Disease in 19th-Century Britain: The Social Constitution of Somatic Illness in a Capitalist Society, International Journal of Health Services 8, no.44 (Jan 1995): 589–617.https://doi.org/10.2190/JA0G-XNBT-6VET-2K17Karl Figlio Chlorosis and chronic disease in nineteenth‐century Britain: The social constitution of somatic illness in a capitalist society∗, Social History 3, no.22 (May 2008): 167–197.https://doi.org/10.1080/03071027808567425