November 23, 2001
A Second Look at the Big Squeeze
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Were corsets -- or even foot-binding -- really so bad? | |
| From "The Corset and the Crinoline," 1868 | ||
Long before the sexual revolution led women to shed their bras and girdles for physical freedom, early feminists campaigned
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