Pornography Makes For Strange Bedfellows. The feminist/right-wing union against pornography by Edward H. Hurley The debate over pornography has taken a twist in recent years. What used to a battle between conservatives, who favored the suppression of pornography for its immoral nature, and liberals, who supported the legality of pornography on free expression grounds is now more complex.
Now the people that seek to suppress pornography are not necessarily conservatives but some are leftist radicals. But unlike conservatives who see pornography as obscene, these radical feminists view pornography as a way of sustaining the unequal status of women in society. One would think that anti-obscenity conservatives and feminists would have nothing in common but being against pornography is their unifying issue.
Probably the most visible sign of their collaboration has been Attorney General Edwin Meese's Commission of Pornography in 1986. The Rise of the Feminist Critique of Pornography I do not like pornography. Work Cited. Gloria Steinem and a disagreement on Porn vs. Erotica and on Transsexualism. Gloria Steinem says many good things on many different issues. But many of them are flawed. Quite obvious is her trying to separate "erotica" from "pornography". Is just a way to specify a term that is inherently vague. There is no difference between porn and erotica.
And both are very vague terms, moreso the word porn, though. And her argument that porn is about that, porn is something about dominance, dominance of women. Which is ridiculous. It's the STATE of an industry. Now onto her opinions of transsexuals. And here's one more disagreeable statement. Sarah Palin is a fool and a non-feminist indeed. Cooperation Beats Submission—In Bed | Gloria Steinem. With rendition switcher Question: Can stripping or prostitution ever be empowering for women? Gloria Steinem: The word "empower" is troubling.
I mean I have spent 40 years talking to women. I sat before the election, interviewed prostituted women in Las Vegas and so it isn’t... In the egalitarian cultures... Future of Feminism: Sex Workers Deserve Dignity and Care. There’s no doubt that sex work in its various manifestations, ranging from stripping to prostitution to pornography, remains a contentious issue.
It’s one on which even feminists notoriously disagree–a “fracture in ideology,” according to Kate Holden–with discussions veering back and forth between victimization and empowerment. Of course there’s a substantial difference between becoming a sex worker by choice and, say, being sex trafficked by force, and I doubt anyone would argue that forced prostitution is empowering. However, “sex slavery,” as popularized in films and on shows such as Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, represents a more extreme scenario, with many sex workers–at least in the U.S. –falling somewhere on a spectrum between choice and circumstance. One thing isn’t really up for debate, though: A sex worker, woman or man, cis- or transgender, shouldn’t be deprived of rights, protection or access to health care due to the social stigma that weighs on their profession. Bristol feminists hit back over Dita von Teese criticism, burlesque | Bristol Evening Post.
The Evening Post angered Bristol feminist groups when it criticised them for their attitude to a performance in the city by burlesque star Dita von Teese. Ms von Teese performed at the opening of an art exhibition in the City Museum. This is their response to the criticism, written by SIAN NORRIS of the Bristol Feminist Network and DR HELEN MOTT of the Bristol Fawcett Society, and supported by many other feminists. ON Saturday, May 15, on the front page of the Evening Post, "Bristol feminists" were dubbed "hypocrites" for protesting over the use of the City Museum and Art Gallery for a striptease by Dita von Teese while, apparently, "turning a blind eye" to a naked performance a mile down the road (Trilogy at the Old Vic).
How wrong could that be. Not only were many Bristol feminists in the Old Vic – eyes wide open, cheering on that performance – but they had already spelled out why they believed the two events to be so different. "Bristol Feminists" are not against burlesque. How to Create a Feminist Burlesque Scene. I’ve been privileged enough to spend a good portion of the last two summers involved in creating a queer neo-burlesque scene in Mexico City with an amazing group of talented individuals.
It all started two years ago when a group of new chilango friends found out I did burlesque and arranged for me to perform at the Festival Lésbico in Mexico City. I’d never performed for such a huge lesbian audience before, and it stands out in my memory as one of the best shows of my life. The crowd was amazingly supportive, cheering and hollering for more, offering me heartfelt congratulations as I walked off the stage, and eagerly talking to me and asking me questions after the show.
It was due to the success of that performance that my friends and I planned for me to teach a burlesque workshop in Mexico City the following summer, which was my first time teaching a burlesque workshop, as well as my first time teaching exclusively in Spanish. Tips for Burlesque Performers Tips for Burlesque Producers. Art or Bust? The Great Burlesque Debate « Bad Feminist UK.
Saucy fun? Self-exploitation? Cultural critique? Banal titillation? Time Out Live House of Thoughts and the Blue Stocking Society present ART OR BUST? The Great Burlesque Debate Monday December 6, doors 7pm, start 8pm Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 42-44 Pollard Row, London E2 6NB £7 (£5 adv) A decade ago, burlesque erupted in a surprisingly popular underground revival.
ART OR BUST? With performances from: Kitty Bang Bang Audacity Chutzpah Polly Cupcake Kiki Kaboom Spencer Maybe And on the panel: Marisa Carnesky, award-winning director, performer, illusionist and academic Kitty Bang Bang, established burlesque performer Ophelia Bitz, relapsed burlesque performer Simon Casson, producer, Duckie Lara Clifton, co-founder, Whoopee Club Jo King, boss of School of Striptease and host of Tournament of Tease Lucille Howe, burlesque performer turned novelist and journalist Video directed by Ophelia Bitz, starring Audacity Chutzpah and Fatima Like this: Like Loading... Rarely Wears Lipstick: Burlesque, stripping and feminism. Burly Camp: nipple tassels, feminism and a touch of upcycling | Ms Wanda's. Those who think burlesque is just posh stripping might be forced to change their mind, as nippel tassels meld with feminism at this weekend’s Burly Camp. Oh, and they’ll be a touch of upcycling thrown in too.
This weekend at Hoxton Hall a bunch of bright and beautiful women will be getting together to take their clothes off. This isn’t a weird orgy or Our Bodies, Ourselves dungaree fest, but a weekend of good humoured burlesque. Many find it strange that feminists can also enjoy a bit of burlesque as they only see it as stripping. But burlesque is more than that: it’s a celebration of the female form; a performance art; and a bit of a giggle. Most burlesque nights are a far cry from the sordid strip clubs of Soho. The first burlesque night I went to had a ukelele player before the main act, and a magician following it.
If you’re not convinced by these arguments then maybe you should go along to Burly Camp and make your voice heard. Burly Camp runs all weekend at Hoxton Hall, London. Viewcontent.cgi (application/pdf Object) Simply Burlesque. Burlesque Comeback Tries to Dance With Feminism. Women have rediscovered burlesque and are working to make the performance genre their own. Have they stripped away the stereotypes or are they still just left with the old bump 'n' grind? (WOMENSENEWS)--The music thumps. The men and women in the crowd whoop and clap. And the woman on stage slowly peels off a piece of her glittering costume. It's burlesque and it's back. Over the last 10 years, women have dusted off pasties and tassels in a rediscovery of classic burlesque, which ended its heyday in the early 1960s with the sexual revolution and increase of sex and nudity in other venues.
The strip tease, which evolved as the big attraction, still grabs the spotlight. "The revival is a reaction to the MTV, HBO, sex-is-everywhere attitude," says Michelle Baldwin, who performs as Vivienne VaVoom in the Denver-based troupe Burlesque As It Was. Online and Everywhere Else The audience today is also different, says Shteir. Claiming a Place in Feminism Rummaging in History For more information: Can burlesque be feminist? - Features. Burlesque may set feminist alarm-bells ringing, but it can help cultivate a love of your own body, argues Chloe Emmott Chloe Emmott, 30 August 2007 A few months ago, I took the plunge and enrolled in burlesque classes. As a feminist I had, and still have, issues with the idea of the strip tease - however a friend and fellow feminist had told me how much she enjoyed it.
As a feminist I, of course, have issues with the objectification of women. I abhor the Playboy and lads' mag culture. So why oh why did I go to burlesque classes, you might ask? The issue of stripping and porn is one of the biggest grey areas in feminism today. My burlesque classes were a sisterhood of sequins I feel that the issue of female sexuality and it's expression in a public manner is one that, while complex and controversial, is one of the biggest issues of our time.
Female sexuality has been denied and swept under the carpet for so long. This article astutely notes that burlesque has a large female fan-base. Neo-Burlesque Is Not Just Booty Shaking. By Simi Horwitz | Posted May 11, 2011, 6:11 p.m. "Today you can't be a naked lady without saying something," according to New York burlesque performer Dirty Martini. "My body is different from what you might expect to see, but it's real and it's glamorous.
There is a subtext in what I do. I take my clothes off, I do athletic dance moves, and I'm a size 16. It's important for women to see a woman of my size owning my sexuality. I believe all shapes and sizes should be celebrated. " A recently released documentary, "Dirty Martini and the New Burlesque," celebrates not only Martini but a host of other performers who indeed boast a range of body types, along with a potpourri of styles and sensibilities, from over-the-top glitz and glam to the downright goofy. Burlesque—more recently dubbed "neo-burlesque"—is not new. "There is a wider arc today," says Doc Wasabassco, who produces burlesque shows. Good Burlesque is Theater Martini views her performances as political. Living it Up. Don't Give Up the Strip!: erotic performance as live entertainment in mid-twentieth century Australia - Journal of Australian Studies - Volume 34, Issue 2.
Viewcontent.cgi (application/pdf Object) Burlesque and the New Bump-n-Grind (9780972577625): Michelle Baldwin. Playboy interview: Camille Paglia. Summary: Paglia is shunned by most feminists because she accuses the women's movement of betraying women, alienating men, and replacing dialogue with political correctness. It is almost easier to get through to the president than to Camille Paglia. The litany of instructions on her answering machine is intentionally intimidating. A male voice begins, "Due to her pressing obligations as a teacher and scholar, Professor Paglia cannot personally return calls.
" The instructions continue, "American and Canadian media with official requests should contact her publisher; international media must contact her agent. Invitations to speak and all other business should be put in writing and sent to Professor Paglia. A few year, ago, no one would have cared enough to call. Though Paglia's image as an antifeminist feminist, antigay lesbian and antiliberal liberal seems carefully cultivated, it is nonetheless remarkable. Now that she's famous, Paglia enjoys wielding her power. "Legalize all drugs. Pin-Up Grrrls: Feminism, Sexuality, Popular Culture. The Happy Stripper: Pleasures and Politics of the New Burlesque - Jacki Willson. Grrrly hurly burly: neo-burlesque and the performance of gender - Textual Practice - Volume 23, Issue 4.
"The Grotesque Menagerie" by Merin Leigh Tigert. Abstract The Grotesque Menagerie is an exploration of domestic and gender roles of the American West. The burlesque and the grotesque are used as the dissection tools throughout this manuscript to examine these roles, and in so doing pervert both the ideal and the abject. As the author, these poetic explorations and dissections leave me stuck in an odd androgyny: I am suspect of my own feminist preclusions and oddly obliged to interact with the established patriarchal tropes of the western poetic cannon. I do not reject the canon as a symbol of patriarchal power; I do not request the role of woman to be forefront; I am, at once, transfixed and emasculated. This androgyny is mirrored by the main character, a carnival barker or master of ceremonies, Whispering Ted.
The Grotesque Menagerie is grotesque in three critical understandings of the term. However, post-Romantic grotesque is tied to the Freudian understanding of the unheimlich: the uncanny. OhioLINK ETD: Fargo, Emily. Shake it hard: feminist identity and the burly-Q. Neo-Burlesque: Feminist Success or ‘Post-Feminist’ Tool of Subjugation? Neo-Burlesque: Feminist Success or ‘Post-Feminist’ Tool of Subjugation? For my second event paper for this class, I attended a Lili’s Burlesque benefit show entitled Save Our Seas hosted by the Music Box Theater.
The local burlesque troop had invited several out of state performers to construct a burlesque show to benefit those affected by the recent catastrophic BP oil spill. While initially hesitant on whether or not to consider a burlesque show a form of art, I believe for several reasons burlesque can be considered art. In analyzing the show from a feminist lens, there are several key points that I would like to discuss. When I arrived at the Music Box Theater, I noticed that there crowd there was a very diverse mix. The next interesting thing that happened was a male burlesque dancer. I kept wondering to myself: “What makes this different?” I feel that a similarity can be drawn between José Esteabn Muñoz’s discussion of drag in The White to Be Angry. Research.pdf (application/pdf Object) Camille paglia strippers vs burlesque.
Real women do burlesque. The catcalls get louder just before I peel off my top. The corset is black and ruffled, zipper at the side for easy access, and when it hits the floor I kick it away with my high-heeled boot and spin away from the audience to hide my chest, completely bare except for a pair of hot-pink pasties. Billie Holiday coos in the background, and as the lights go down, I spin back around and give my admirers a quick little taste of a bare-breasted shimmy.
No, it’s not Saturday night at Centerfolds, and hell no, I’m not letting tubby suburban dads stuff one-dollar bills in my crotch so that I can support a kid or pay my tuition. I’m trying my hand (and the rest of my body) at the art of burlesque. Mind you, I said art. That’s what sold me. The uninitiated assume that burlesque involves bawdy women swinging their sparkly tits to the beat of some trashy-sounding vamp.
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