| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.4

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Book Review

Uplift: The Bra in America. By Jane Farrell-Beck and Colleen Gau. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. xvi, 243 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8122-3643-2.)

Jane Farrell-Beck demonstrated that she has the knack for extracting historical relevance from the most mundane of sources when she examined United States patents in order to retrieve the history of menstrual products ('Menstrual Products Patented in the United States, 1854-1921,' 1997). She and her coauthor, Colleen Gau, bring the same research proficiency to Uplift; as experts in the field of textiles, they are uniquely qualified to relate the history of the bra in the United States. The authors, however, cannot decide whether their analysis should focus on the economic importance of brassieres--a billion-dollar industry--or on the changes in women's roles over the last century and a half as mirrored by the developments of the bra. . . .

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