L'Histoire merveilleuse de la Louisiane Française

Woodbridge, Benj. M.; Hubert-Robert, Régine

doi:10.2307/40082807

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The Unnatural Pad Distorts the Natural Slender Waist1

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“…In his act of exposing the female characters of the play as pad-wearers, Lovejoke simultaneously marks the pad as unnatural: 'I am sure none of the ladies present will hereafter offend in the same point; well convinced that Confusion and Shame must ever attend those, who "outstep the Modesty of Nature."' 41 According to Lovejoke, the pad's immodesty arises from its unnaturalness. The pad is a signifier of excess and 'shame[ful]' both because of this unnaturalness and because the precise excess the pad-wearer is guilty of is rendered…”

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The Pad, the ‘Fat’ Belly, and the Politics of Female Appetite

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2023

J Eighteenth Century Stud

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Abstract1793 saw the emergence, vogue, and decline of ‘the pad’, a fashionable false belly worn by women under their outer garments. At the time, the pad was most explicitly condemned as a disguise for illegitimate pregnancy and as a distorter of the ‘natural’ female shape — the slender waist. However, as this article will uncover, underpinning these more common critiques of the pad was the suspicion that it concealed and imitated the ‘fat’ female belly. Indeed, as I argue, the unsettling effect of the pad was notably due to the way in which it rendered the female wearer's body illegible, particularly to those who wished to police it.

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The Pad, the ‘Fat’ Belly, and the Politics of Female Appetite

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J Eighteenth Century Stud

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L'Histoire merveilleuse de la Louisiane Française

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