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| Author(s): |
Priscila Nina Fernandes
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2021-05-13 |
| Examining board members: |
Vânia Carneiro de Carvalho;
Maria Claudia Bonadio;
Solange Ferraz de Lima;
Priscila Piazentini Vieira
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| Advisor: | Vânia Carneiro de Carvalho |
| Abstract | |
The corset is an object of a new female experience that is related to modernity. It expresses different tensions; it creates and sustains new forms of sociability. Between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, the corset circulated in women\'s bodies, was displayed in stores and shop windows, was advertised in illustrated magazines, and portrayed in novels, paintings, cartoons and films. In Brazilian urban centers, many women became involved with the corset, either as consumers, manufacturers or salespeople. By analyzing this artifact, we seek to understand aspects of Brazilian modernization, between 1889 and 1929, focusing on the construction of a bourgeois intimacy in the country. We defend that the corset was an agent in the construction of female intimacy, which is delimited simultaneously as a relationship between the individual and the body and the public and private spheres and guided by a series of norms. The notion of intimacy is associated with an ideal of femininity, with the sexualization and exhibition of the female body, with tensions between individuality and massification, with gender differentiation, with the ritualization of everyday life, with the process of modernization and with the domestic and urban environments. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 16/24145-6 - The corset and the bra in the making of Brazilian intimacy (1895-1929) |
| Grantee: | Priscila Nina Fernandes |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate (Direct) |