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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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 |