Video: Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines | Watch Independent Lens Online | PBS Video. GENDER AND TELEVISION. Going “Au Naturale”: How the Pursuit of Beauty Impacts Us. Phoebe Baker Hyde, a Brookline, MA native, who rejected cosmetics and went without hair styling, new makeup and even new clothes for an entire year. Phoebe says she feels more beautiful than ever and her book documenting the experience, The Beauty Experiment, is captivating women across the country. Most women say that when they look dowdy or are not wearing makeup, they feel like they are taken less seriously.
We wanted to find out if this is true, so we sent a woman out for a social experiment that involved asking strangers for directions or to borrow a cell phone. She showed two different faces to the world, one with makeup and one without, and the results weren’t pretty. The average woman spends a full week of every year “putting her face on,” as they say. That’s 168 hours of makeup and hair styling! Inspired by Phoebe Baker Hyde and her book, The Beauty Experiment, Jessie Knadler from Lexington, VA decided to ditch her security blanket of beauty. Who Are You Being Beautiful For? Inspiration for Iconic Rosie the Riveter Image Dies.
History.com Staff At 17, a young factory worker named Geraldine Doyle unwittingly inspired J. Howard Miller’s iconic “We Can Do It!” Poster, an image that later became a powerful symbol of American women’s contributions during World War II and of female empowerment. More than four decades would go by before she learned that she had become the face of Rosie the Riveter. Doyle died on December 26 in Lansing, Michigan, at the age of 86. In 1942, a United Press International photographer visited a metal pressing factory outside Detroit and took a snapshot of a slim, fresh-faced brunette leaning over a machine. Geraldine Hoff Doyle, the real-life inspiration behind the iconic poster, died on December 26 in Lansing, Michigan, at the age of 86. More than four decades would go by before Doyle learned of the poster’s existence and discovered that her likeness had inspired a pop culture reference. Gender Ads Project. Shirtless Models Turn Heads and Raise Eyebrows.
Vintage Gender Advertisements of the 1950s. Model Casey Legler: is she the perfect man? | Fashion | The Observer. Casey Legler is standing, topless, by our rail of clothes, reading them like they're credits on a film. Some are "drag", some "boy". Some she'll wear if she wants to "serve you 'girl'", some she won't wear at all. As a child, all she wanted to do was sit by a swimming pool in a pink tutu, and read her difficult books. She moved a lot when she was younger, between Louisiana, Florida and Aix-en-Provence, and, noticing that the fashions (and prejudices) in France and America were completely different, Legler "learned early on," she tells me later, "that what you looked like wasn't necessarily who you were".
People had "different armour. I realised things only mean what we want them to mean, and it's not appropriate information for differentiation. Legler is 6ft 2in, 35 years old, and the first woman to sign exclusively as a male model. We're sitting in a London pub after the shoot; the fizz of Legler's Berocca is deafening. Legler has had many lives. At 21, she gave up swimming.