For example, the corset was used to make woman's waist thinner in the Victorian era, when the ideal was S-shape figure. Only in the XX century mankind remembered natural lines of a woman's body and stopped the deformation of the trunk by the corset, which reflected the notion that true women were men's complementary opposites. ... The ideal, reflected by the culture, changed from a family woman with a toned, muscular figure, who devoted herself to serving her husband's needs, who was wearing long dresses and corsets, to a thin, tall female of the end of the century th...

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Furthermore, "fashionable women's corsets, when tightened could exert pressure from twenty to nearly ninety pounds [. . .] a lady was not to walk the streets alone like a prostitute [and] not to scrub floors like a servant" (Payne 4). ... The Western Woman would be able to take up and defend her husband's cause because she undoubtedly had forfeited her corset, (the main cause for swooning), for bandages or firewood. ...

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Anderson dreams he is tied up with corsets; Sassoon remembers a young boy's genitals shot off in the war; Prior remembers his weakness against his father and the influence of his mother; and Rivers even counsels Sassoon on his homosexuality. ...

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