Femininity (38 page)

practical nature of,
81
,
83

tight, for men,
98

pantyhose, pornography and,
37

Paradise Lost
(Milton),
61

Parker, Suzy,
180

Paul, Saint,
59–60
,
112
,
113

Pavlova, Anna,
182

pelvis, female,
27
,
177

perfume,
151
,
152–53
,
161

Perrett, Geoffrey,
198

perspiration,
148–51

philosophy, femininity and,
108–10

Picasso, Pablo,
154
,
187

Pickford, Mary,
67–68

Pinkham, Lydia E.,
211

Playboy
magazine,
155

pocketbooks,
98–99

pockets, functional,
98

Pompadour, Lady,
62

Popcorn Venus
(Rosen),
68

pornography,
179

corset fetishism in,
37

fur in,
100

gags in,
113

high heels in,
185

lotus foot in,
34

pubic hair in,
154–55

spread schots in,
155
,
188

posture:

effects of corset wearing on,
36–37

upright, origins of,
42

powder, powder puffs,
162

power relationship, speaking style and,
114
,
123

pregnancy,
148–49
,
191

skin changes during,
137

premenstrual tension,
211–12

Pride and Prejudice
(Austen),
135–36

“Princess and the Pea, The” (Andersen),
131

prostitution,
70
,
96
,
144

cosmetics and,
161–62

footwear and,
185–86

Prynne, William,
60

psychology,
226

effects of dress on,
82
,
98

feminine emotion and,
213–14

puberty,
27–28
,
150

hair changes in,
139
,
141
,
143

voice changes in,
105

pubic hair,
142
,
143
,
153–56

punishment,
114

of scolds,
112–13

Puritan heritage,
44
,
47
,
60
,
161–162

Pygmalion
(Shaw),
108

rape,
45
,
95
,
200
,
228

Rational Dress Society,
91

Reagan, Nancy,
48–49

Reagan, Ronald,
208

Recamier, Madame,
39

religion:

activity of women in,
113–14

clothing and,
81–82
,
92
,
96–97
,
99

pantheistic vs. monotheistic,
224

in subjugation of women,
18
,
60
,
96–97
,
111–12
,
114
,
224
,
225

see also
Christianity; Islam; Jews

Renaissance,
61
,
70
,
133
,
162

feminine ideal in,
23
,
46

Richardson, Mary (Polly Dick),
24

Rigby, Cathy,
181

Rokeby Venus
(Velasquez),
24

Rome, ancient:

clothing in,
83

hair in,
59
,
70
,
75

Room of One’s Own
, A (Woolf),
125

Rosen, Marjorie,
68
,
146

Roth, Philip,
44

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques,
108–9
,
110

Rowell, Thelma,
197

Rudofsky, Bernard,
33
,
184

Russell, Jane,
26
,
38

Russell, Lillian,
46

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold von,
100

Sachs, Jacqueline,
116

Sackville-West, Vita,
93
,
94

sadomasochism,
184–85

Sand, George,
92
,
125

Savitch, Jessica,
116

Schaller, George,
140

Schiller, Friedrich,
181–82

scolds, women as,
111
,
112–13

Seeing Through Clothes
(Hollander),
37

sex:

emotion and,
213
,
216

male excitement and,
33
,
37

violence and,
18
,
33
,
45
,
95
,
112
,
200
,
228

s
ee also
homosexuality; pornography; prostitution

sex differences:

body and,
26–33
,
49
,
176–77

hair and,
58
,
141

orgasm and,
213

skin and,
132–33

weight and,
49

sexual morality, clothing and,
82
,
83
,
96–97
,
100

Shakespeare, William,
107
,
138
,
155

Shange, Ntozake,
73–74

Shaw, George Bernard,
108

Sheppard, Eugenia,
80

Shields, Brooke,
141

Shikibu, Murasaki (Lady Murasaki),
124

shoes,
80
,
81
,
101
,
183–87

high-heeled,
183–84
,
185
,
186

sensible,
184
,
186–87

Shonagon, Sei,
124

shopping,
81
,
99
,
117

sidesaddles,
190–91

sitting, position of legs and,
187–88
, skin,
127–67

dark,
70
,
130
,
132–33

diseases of,
129–30

fair,
70
,
130–31
,
132
,
133–35

male disorders of,
130
,
132

pocked,
137–38

sex differences in,
132–33

skirts,
80–81
,
82
,
84–86
,
138

feminizing mission of,
85–86

long,
83
,
84
,
88

smallpox, effects on skin of,
137–38

Smyth, Ethel,
93

Snow White, story of,
131
,
227

“softening effect, the,”
95

Song
of Solomon
(Morrison),
73

Southern belle strategy,
119

Southey, Robert,
126

“speaking in italics,”
116

speech:

campy,
116–17

emotion in,
116–17
,
119
,
120

feminine,
107
,
114–23

interruption of,
120–21

women’s, hindrance of,
107–14

speech impediments,
107
,
116

Speer, Albert,
164

sperm, swimming motions of,
229

sports,
see
athletic women

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady,
88
,
89
,
90
,
91

Stanton, Neil,
90

Stapleton, Jean,
123

status:

clothing and,
79–80
,
86
,
97
,
98
,
99–100

hair as symbol of,
62
,
71

skin color and,
136

Stein, Gertrude,
187

Steinem, Gloria,
215

stepmothers, negative images of,
227

stockings,
83

nylon,
80
,
81
,
102
,
142
,
146–47

silk,
146
,
164

Stone, Lucy,
88
,
89
,
90

straitlaced, origin of term,
36–37

Stubbes, Philip,
60

suffrage movement,
24
,
88–91
,
101

Summer, Donna,
213

sunbathing,
136
,
145

sweat, sweat glands,
148–51

Taglioni, Maria,
182

Tale of Two Cities, A
(Dickens),
229

Tanner, J. M.,
143

Tarnower, Herman,
216
n

testosterone,
27
,
105–6
,
182

aggression and,
201
,
202

Thatcher, Margaret,
124

thighs, large,
41
,
46

Thome, Barrie,
115

thyroid gland, emotion and,
211

Tiffany, Sharon,
223

Tintoretto,
46

“today i’ma be a white girl” (Shange),
74

Tolstoy, Leo,
139

Trench, Charles Chenevix,
190

Tripp, C. A.,
181

Trobriand Islanders, sexual legends of,
155

Truth, Sojourner,
114

Tubman, Harriet,
92

Tuclcer, Betsey and John,
113

Tune, Tommy,
174

Turkish Bath, The
(Ingres),
46

Twain, Mark,
174

Twiggy,
48

Tyndale, William,
112

Tyson, Cicely,
72

underarm hair,
142
,
143
,
147–48
,
156

underwear,
35–40
,
80

erotic value of,
37–38

see also
bras; corsets; girdles

uterus,
27
,
111
,
177
,
191
,
192
,
211

veils, erotic life of,
96–97

Velasquez, Diego,
24

Venus,
46
,
154

tyranny of,
24–25

Venus in Fur
(Sacher-Masoch),
100

Venus
of Willendorf
(paleolithic figurine),
24

Victorian era,
191

clothing in,
83
,
91

cosmetics in,
162

female education in,
111

victory, personal, exulting in,
212

Vietnam war,
43
,
74

peace movement and,
100–101
,
217

Vincent, L. M.,
49

Vindication of the Rights of Women, A
(Wollstonecraft),
109

violence, sexual,
18
,
33
,
45
,
95
,
112
,
200
,
228

Vivien, Renee,
93

Vogue magazine,
136
,
148
,
193

voice,
103–26

deep,
105–6
,
116
,
121–22

female, carrying power of,
121
,
124

high-pitched,
105
,
115–16
,
124

sexual dimorphism of,
106

waist, slender,
25
,
35–36
,
46–47

Wallace, Michele,
135

Walpole, Horace,
31
,
138

Walters, Barbara,
116

War and Peace
(Tolstoy),
139

War Industries Board,
39

Warner, Marina,
226–27

War Production Board,
69

Weideger, Paula,
194

weight,
26
,
46–50
,
176

nonappearance factors in obsession with,
49–50

sex differences in,
49

s
ee also
body fat

West, Mae,
200

West, Nathanael,
217

Wharton, Edith,
76

White, Ellen G.,
114

widows, black clothes of,
97

wife beating,
112
,
200

wigs,
58
,
62
,
70

Winters, Shelley,
148

Wollstonecraft, Mary,
31
,
109

Woman Warrior, The
(Kingston),
114–15

“women’s intuition,”
197

women’s movement,
24–25
,
123
,
229–30

cosmetics and,
158
,
160

myth of bra burning in,
45–46

Woolf, Virginia,
94
,
125

work, women’s,
177–78
,
221–31

working-class women,
225

clothing and,
87
,
91

World of the Shining Prince, The
(Morris),
134

wrists,
25

pliant,
180–81

writing, feminine,
124–26

Young, Loretta,
148

Ziegfeld, Florenz,
46
,
47
,
48

Zola, Emile,
50
,
148

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