American Beauties: The Cult of the Bosom in Early Republican Art and Society

This interdisciplinary project offers new research to introduce the American cult of the bosom, which emerged in the years following the Revolutionary War and helped shape the discourse around women’s roles in the early republic. The cult of the bosom sought to shift the way in which the female body...

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Main Author: Gerhold, Emily
Format: Others
Published: VCU Scholars Compass 2012
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Online Access:http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/353
http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1352&context=etd