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Sun, Sand, and Style: The Evolution of the Bikini
The bikini undoubtedly owed a large part of its success to the cinema – which actually featured it at first only because it was scandalous, and scandal filled seats. But it was quite right that there should have been some hesitation over it, for Hollywood had to be careful: initially it banned the bikini from the screen as “too corrupting and immoral.”
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Lingerie: More Than Just Underwear
Lingerie can help a woman feel good about her body, helping her thus to like and accept it, and in doing this, affirming a real sense of self-confidence.
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The Origin of the World – The sexual tension
There are the testimonies of poets, painters, and even of some famous psychiatrists. The Origin of the World is a work of art only suitable for lovers of intrigue.
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Underwear and Fashion: Lingerie, corsetry and hosiery
The authors correlate lingerie with emancipation, querying whether it asserts newfound freedoms or simply adjusts to conform to changing social values. The result is a rigorous scientific rationale spiced with a zest of humour. And the tinier lingerie gets, the more scholarly attention it deserves.
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Shelley’s Art Musings – Internationaler Frauentag – Wir feiern Künstlerinnen
Dennoch gibt es zwischen vielen Frauen auf der ganzen Welt immer noch enorme Unterschiede, was die Arbeit und die Bezahlung, die Anerkennung und die Ehrungen angeht. In den meisten zeitgenössischen Galerien sind weibliche Künstler gegenüber männlichen immer noch in der Minderheit.
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Shelley’s Art Musings – International Women’s Day – Celebrating Female Artists
There are still huge worlds apart for many women across the globe in areas of work and pay, acknowledgements and accolades. Female artists are still outweighed by male artists in most contemporary galleries. We are very used to seeing the female form as the centrepiece but usually painted from the male perspective.
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Shelley’s Art Scandal – Women and the art world – why are there so few?
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