Shaping Femininity av Sarah (Australian Catholic University Australia) Bendall

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<b>Highly Commended, Society for Renaissance Studies Biennial Book Prize 2022</b>In sixteenth and seventeenth-century England, the female silhouette underwent a dramatic change. This very structured form, created using garments called bodies and farthingales, existed in various extremes in Western Europe and beyond, in the form of stays, corsets, hoop petticoats and crinolines, right up until the twentieth century. With a nuanced approach that incorporates a stunning array of visual and written sources and drawing on transdisciplinary methodologies, <i>Shaping Femininity</i> explores the relationship between material culture and femininity by examining the lives of a wide range of women, from queens to courtiers, farmer¿s wives and servants, uncovering their lost voices and experiences. It reorients discussions about female foundation garments in English and wider European history, arguing that these objects of material culture began to shape and define changing notions of the feminine