123rd Annual Meeting (January 2 - 5, 2009): Bound Feet, Corseted Waists, and Veiled Heads: Chastity Belts and the Tropes of Contained Femininity

AHA Session 160

Sunday, January 4, 2009: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM

Nassau Suite B (Hilton New York)

Chair:

Felice Lifshitz, Florida International University

From Propaganda to "Factual" History to Visual Representation to Myth Turned into Fact: The Arduous Way of the Medieval Chastity Belt into Modern Imagination
Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona

On Uniforms and Work Clothes: Containing the Laboring Body
Eileen Boris, University of California at Santa Barbara; Ava Baron, Rider Univ.

The Prescriptive Nature of India's Treatise on Pleasure: The Text of the Kama Sutra in the Context of Sexual Liberation
Anne Hardgrove, University of Texas at San Antonio

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