the book delves deep into the history of fetishism and explains how it is now an increasingly ordinary part of people's lives

Autorentext
An acknowledged authority on the erotic experts of fashion, Valerie Steele is Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York.

Klappentext

Steele is to fetish dressing what Anne Rice is to vampires.' Christa Worthington, Elle Fetish Fashion, Sex, and Power Valerie Steele Corsets. High heels. Thigh-high leather boots. Tattoos and body piercing. What do they mean? Historically grounded and abundantly illustrated, Fetish: Fashion, Sex, and Power charts the boundaries of the normal and perverse', showing how even the most unusual clothing fetishes enable their wearers (male and female, gay and straight) to use clothing to express their social and sexual identities.

Zusammenfassung
This study analyzes the relationship between fashion and fetishism. Charting the boundaries of the "normal" and the "perverse", it shows how even the most bizarre-seeming clothing fetishes enable their wearers to use clothing to express their social and sexual identities.