Corsets

<p>Have you ever been told you’re bringing women’s rights back one-hundred years because of what you’re wearing?</p><br><p>The guest on Betwixt the Sheets today has. And it was a corset.</p><br><p>Dr Alanna McKnight has dedicated her career to researching the social and cultural history of corsets, and to challenging the idea that corsets were imposed on women as a tool of patriarchal control.</p><br><p>Find out why people started wearing corsets, whether men ever wore corsets, what were they made of, and how they’ve paved the way for shape wear like Spanx and waist-trainers.</p><br><p>Find out more about Alanna’s work <a href="https://www.fashionstudies.ca/the-kurious-kase-of-kim-kardashians-korset" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>, and read her article on Kim Kardashian’s Met Gala corset <a href="https://twitter.com/alanna_mck?lang=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><br><p>*WARNING this episode includes some fruity language*</p><br><p>Produced by Charlotte Long and Sophie Gee. Mixed by Seyi Adaobi.</p><br><p>Betwixt the Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society. A podcast by History Hit.This episode includes music by Epidemic Sound and an archive clip from the Public Health Film Goes to War from the National Library of Medicine 1945.</p> <hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>