Research; List of 35

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