Feeling sexy? The lingerie effect.
Lingerie: a wide range from matching M&S knickers and bra to raunchy dominatrix outfit. Rachel Wood, published in Journal of Gender Studies examines the complex woman/lingerie relationship and how it affects, identity, class, relationships, confidence, desire, intimacy and pleasure. Lingerie constructs many aspects of a woman’s identity; Mother, sportswoman, sexual partner, worker. Wood interviewed 16 professional women, aged between 20 and 30 and heard their interpretations of lingerie in the postfeminist age. How did it affect them and what purpose did it fulfil? Most of the women