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hearthmistress · 2 years ago

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Because I mention this every single time I see a corset-defending post that suggest that corsets were in NO WAY constricting, here is evidence that Indigenous women, specifically Anishinaabe women rejected wearing corsets and found them restricting, even when they adapted aspects of white western dress in the nineteenth century (written by an Indigenous historian, fyi). I have stated this before (and will state again and again), that the ideology around corsets was about enforcing a certain type of femininity - specifically a white, upper-class, and thin form of femininity - that did not pertain to many women:

From: Brittany Luby, Dammed: The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory (Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2020), 145-149.

#history #indigneous history #fashion history #wow an actual source written by an actual historian #in a book that won the top canadian history book prizes #instead of a hobbyist with an art history degree who thinks mary wollstonecraft is cringe #this book is actually about the ways in which mid-century hydroelectric boom replicated colonialist ideologies and caused unspeakable damage #to both the environment and the Anishinaabe community in northern ontario #makes me kind of sad that i also have to whip out the corset section on a book that is about so much more #but unfortunately hobbyists only care about war or clothing apparently so here we are #i do gender history and i like clothes #but there's like a thousand more things interesting about women's or gender history than rehashing corset debates because you think #the clothing is pretty and you don't want to talk about the larger implications of that #my post

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