Fetish : fashion, sex and power /

Steele, Valerie.

Fetish : fashion, sex and power / Valerie Steele. - New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1997. - viii, 243 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 26 cm.

Originally published: 1996.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Based on years of research, Valerie Steele's book explains how a paradigm shift in attitudes toward sex and gender has given rise to the phenomenon of fetish fashion.

Specialized.

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Costume--History.--Europe
Fashion--History.
Fashion--Psychological aspects.
Clothing and dress--Symbolic aspects.
Fetishism (Sexual behavior)
Erotica.
Sex symbolism.

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