Materialized Identities in Early Modern Culture, 1450–1750. Objects, Affects, Effects

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that concealed and revealed, accentuated, and burdened female bodies. Bond extends veils beyond “ semiotic codes for social types ” printed in costume books to “ objects of beauty, fashionability, virtue, and vehicles of creativity ” with “ crackling energy, ” fabrics of differing drapes and thickness that had physical and emotional effects on the body (327, 348). Susanna Burghartz focuses on sumptuary policies in Basel and Zurich and pushback that similarly indicated veils ’ “ affective, physical affects on their wearers, ” and through reconstruction draws attention to “ the play of opacity and transparency ” as part of performing female self (404, 406)