can high necklines cure low morals?
- Categories
- Article/Artikel
- Magazine Title
- Bitch
- Magazine Year
- 2008
- Magazine Number
- 38
- Creator
- Tarrant, Shira
- Thesaurus
- normen, seksualiteit, feminisme, ethiek, mode, omgangsvormen, socialisatie, taboes, populaire cultuur, Verenigde Staten, 21e eeuw
- Description
- The modesty movement makes some good points about the effect a hypersexual culture can have on women's well-being and sense of self. And it's hard to argue that corporations and pop-culure products that reduce women and girls to consumers of constructed sexuality are deeply problematic. But by claiming that modesty is the only solution, and by overlooking long-term feminist efforts to expand both women's access to sexual pleasure and the right to say no, the new-modesty hucksters are doing women no favors.