Fashioning Fetishism from the Pages of London Life

Sigel discusses fetishism from the pages of London Life. Her reading of the magazine London Life during the interwar years explores and contextualizes a variety of 'queer and kinky pleasures'. She highlights three of these fetishes: the girl boxer or wrestler, whose exploits provided titil...

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Published in:The Journal of British studies 2012-07, Vol.51 (3), p.664-684
Main Author: Sigel, Lisa Z.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Amputation
Amputees
Consciousness
Correspondence
Corsets
Disabilities
Fetishes
Fetishism
Gender
Gender roles
Historians
Homosexuality
Interwar years
Men
Modernism
Nostalgia
Novels
Press
Queer culture
Sex roles
Sexuality
Social norms
War
Women
Writers
Written correspondence
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Summary:Sigel discusses fetishism from the pages of London Life. Her reading of the magazine London Life during the interwar years explores and contextualizes a variety of 'queer and kinky pleasures'. She highlights three of these fetishes: the girl boxer or wrestler, whose exploits provided titillation while subverting gendered norms; the tight-laced girl, whose corseted figure spoke to an eroticized nostalgia for the potential of pleasure and pain, renunciation and control; and the female amputee, whose fetishization spoke to the erotic possibilities of trauma and loss. Reprinted by permission of the University of Chicago Press. © All rights reserved
ISSN:0021-9371
1545-6986
DOI:10.1086/664995