Corsets

Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society

History Hit

Society, Sex, Scandal, Education, History

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever been told you’re bringing women’s rights back one-hundred years because of what you’re wearing?

The guest on Betwixt the Sheets today has. And it was a corset.

Dr Alanna McKnight has dedicated her career to researching the social and cultural history of corsets, and to challenging the idea that corsets were imposed on women as a tool of patriarchal control.

Find out why people started wearing corsets, whether men ever wore corsets, what were they made of, and how they’ve paved the way for shape wear like Spanx and waist-trainers.

Find out more about Alanna’s work here, and read her article on Kim Kardashian’s Met Gala corset here.

*WARNING this episode includes some fruity language*

Produced by Charlotte Long and Sophie Gee. Mixed by Seyi Adaobi.

Betwixt the Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society. A podcast by History Hit.This episode includes music by Epidemic Sound and an archive clip from the Public Health Film Goes to War from the National Library of Medicine 1945.

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0:00.0	Everyone leaves a legacy.
0:02.2	But a legacy can change over time as new generations
0:05.6	re-examine old preputations.
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0:14.0	we're exploring the lives of some of the biggest characters in history,
0:17.4	from Napoleon to Picasso.
0:19.2	And asking, what does their past tell us about our present?
0:23.4	This is legacy.
0:24.7	Follow now wherever you get your podcasts.
0:31.0	Hello!
0:33.0	And before we start today's episode,
0:35.0	I need to give you a little heads up.
0:37.0	There's some naughty words and some adult themes in this episode.
0:40.0	It'd be disappointing if there wasn't really.
0:42.0	So steady yourself, we're going in.
0:49.0	From the waist, stretch, become taller.
0:55.0	When you stand and sit incorrectly,
0:57.0	your abdominal organs are so crowded that they have no room to function efficiently.
1:05.0	What do you think of when you think of a corset?
1:08.0	Do you think of tit-crushing, rib rupturing,
1:11.0	manacles of female oppression?
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