QUOTES
-"If in the 1950s the home was the ideal focus for women's labour and attention, and the sign to judge their 'worth', in the new millennium it is the body." (ATTWOOD 2009)
-(About Playboy)"...further secured the acceptability of pornography within the mainstream of American culture." (OSGERBY 2001)
-"Certainly when I started performing, people would do more unusual shows – really playing with gender and politics..Maybe it's the circles I move in now, but it doesn't seem to be like that any more. There are a lot of burlesque clubs that are really oversexualised, really horrible. And I think a lot of girls feel pressured to strip." (MISS ROXY VELVET 2009)
-"Since its 1990s revival, burlesque has gradually shifted focus from social satire to simple stripping." (PENNY 2009)
-"The main area of debate at the conference had to do with whether the resurgence of this performance genre is "a continuation of the exploitation of women's bodies or a platform for feminist critique". The answer, of course, is that it can be either." (SZALWINSKA 2007)
STATISTICS//FACTS
-First print run of playboy (70,000 copies) sells out quickly
-'Burlesque' derived from Italian word 'burlesco' meaning a joke or mockery
-Feminist scholarship starts in 1960s
-In 1943, Twentieth Century Fox had Grable's legs insured with Lloyd's of London for the record amount of $1.25 million
-Burlesque was very popular in London theatres from the 1830s to the 1890s
MOMENTS IN HISTORY
-Playboy founded November 1953
-Betty Friedan writes bestseller The Feminine Mystique, which questions the “cult of domesticity” and asks women to reconsider their inferior social roles 1963
-Equal Pay Act provides equitable pay for women 1963
-Protests against Miss America pageant draw media coverage and reports of “bra-burning women’s libbers” 1968
-Meese Commission finds pornography “harmful” and a “social menace” 1986
PEOPLE OF NOTE
-Gil Elvgren
-Bunny Yeager
-Dita Von Teese
-Betty Grable
-Alberto Vegas
IMAGES//MAPS//DRAWINGS//PHOTOS
INVENTIONS//OBJECTS//GARMENTS//ARTEFACTS
-Feather fans (burlesque)
-Wonderbra
-Playboy magazine
-Red lipstick
-Stockings
LOCATIONS//ENVIRONMENTS
-America
-Victorian London
-New York City
-Burlesque Clubs
-Strip Clubs
