"Hugged as a viper to the bosom": Antebellum Corset Reform and the Question of Authority

dc.contributor.advisor	Bell, Richard	en_US
dc.contributor.author	O'Hern, Megan	en_US
dc.contributor.department	History	en_US
dc.contributor.publisher	Digital Repository at the University of Maryland	en_US
dc.contributor.publisher	University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2017-01-25T06:30:58Z
dc.date.available	2017-01-25T06:30:58Z
dc.date.issued	2016	en_US
dc.description.abstract	Between 1820 and 1850, an active and robust movement to eradicate women’s corsets and the practice of tight-lacing became popular in the press. Primarily male reformers responding to forces of modernization attacked women’s corsets in newspapers with a series of arguments designed to shame, scare, and blame women. Female authors, however, challenged male reformers’ knowledge of corsets and thus their authority to speak about the garment. Without overtly challenging the prevailing gender hierarchy and through articulation of their own logic about corsets, women instead asserted their own sex’s authority to speak publicly about corsets and women’s bodies.	en_US
dc.identifier	https://doi.org/10.13016/M26V6D
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1903/19035
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolled	American history	en_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolled	antebellum reform	en_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolled	corsets	en_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolled	tight-lacing	en_US
dc.title	"Hugged as a viper to the bosom": Antebellum Corset Reform and the Question of Authority	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US

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