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corset Orthopedics A device that encircles and supports the trunk or vertebral column, which may be used for trauma or for congenital deformities of the spine. See Milwaukee brace. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Leigh Summers enters these debates with Bound to Please: A History of the Victorian Corset, in which she condemns corsetry and the society that sponsored it as oppressive to women and violently misogynist. It begins with examples of the rigid corsetry, opulent textiles and lavish decoration that reflected the social status of a woman's father or husband, and then moves ahead to the flapper skirts of the '20s, military-inspired suits of the war years, circle skirts of the '50s and contemporary ``power'' suits. His racist and sexist acts were his downfall with Clark; his corsetry and masks with bulging flesh could always seem insensitive; and his 1993 Wigstock performance, as vividly recounted by Hilton Als, cast the pall of a bloody birth scene in the midst of cavorting drag queens. |
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