The corset and the bra in the making of Brazilian intimacy (1895-1929)

• Grant number: 16/24145-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate (Direct)
• Start date: March 01, 2017
• End date: February 28, 2021
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - History of Brazil
• Principal Investigator: Vânia Carneiro de Carvalho
• Grantee: Priscila Nina Fernandes
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The corset and the bra are objects related to a new experience that is connected to modernity. They express different tensions, create and sustain new forms of sociability. From the study of these artifacts we seek to understand aspects of Brazilian modernization in a broad period that corresponds to the so-called First Republic (1895-1929). More specifically, we aim to understand the ideological and material aspects at stake in the Brazilian socioeconomic formation, focusing on the construction of a bourgeois intimacy in the country. We start from two assumptions: that these two objects were active in the construction of a female intimacy and that this intimacy is a creation of the bourgeoisie. (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

FERNANDES, Priscila Nina. The contours of intimacy and the corseted body in Brazil (1889-1929). 2021. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) São Paulo.