#femninity

[theworldinfront]

Yoshida Rio

[theperfectlifestyle]

Feminine Book Wishlist

Health, Beauty, Etiquette & Self Discipline books on my wish list: 

- Suicide by sugar

- Stay young naturally

- How to win friends and influence people

- How to be a gentle woman

- A modern girl’s guide to Etiquette 

- The ladies’ book of etiquette and manual of politeness 

- 7 Habits of Highly Effective People 

- I know what to do, so why don’t I?

If you have any other recommendations for my list, by all means reblog and add or send me a message, I’m always looking to expand my list! 

[shinyasahalo]

I don’t like it when someone says “A strong female character that didn’t sacrifice her femininity.”

I know that popular media and culture in general has a history of femme-phobia, but just because a woman isn’t “feminine” does not mean she “sacrificed her femininity.”  

The problem is that most of media has been and currently is still written by men, who were unable to imagine feminine strong female characters.  

I know we had feminine strong characters with Buffy and Leia, but Buffy was not allowed to appear sweating.  Leia was not allowed to show fat rolls when she was in the ROTJ golden bikini.  

Feminine women sweat and have fat rolls.  

All women sweat and have fat rolls.    

I think Joss Whedon only created strong female characters so he could control them by being the show runner.  

[theworldinfront]

[lauren-ashley-howard]

Where and How She moves. Fluid in her Grace. Doleful, Languid, Is her Dance. Still, her Breath. She moves Through Time Unhurried. Patient, are her Stumbling feet.

[cbarrettnsf]

Dr. Gill and feminine struggles

I really liked Dr. Gill's film today. It was eye opening to me but it also felt very one sided. I loved hearing about gender in this really different perspective but, at the same time, I wanted to know a bit more about the woman's perspective on this subject. As I took notes about the film. They all went back to feminine issues in the eastern world. I remember a few scenes in the film that were talking about how a females life is regarded as "less than" before they've even taken their first breath. Strangulation after birth and abortion are not uncommon for India's girls, which is a sad reality, especially in such a male dominated society. I thought about this documentary that was on Netflix a while ago (I believe it was by NatGeo) called "China's lost girls" It was about how Europeans and Americans had gone to China to adopt little girls who had been abandoned at birth and rescued by orphanages. It's really sad to me that females are regarded at such a low caliber that they're just (quite literally) thrown away and it brought me to another scene in Dr.G's film where the Sikh man was holding his twin daughters and how he talked about how much he loved them and how he wanted to provide the bestie could for them. It was refreshing to see a man that actually cared for his daughters in this eastern society. Now, I don't want people to think that I think that men don't care for their daughters in eastern culture. It's just that we see so much that would seemingly prove that women are nothing but breeders and modes and means for pleasure and for "house keeping" that it's a refreshing take on the way things are. It also brings me to this kind of inequality that I saw as a theme in the film. I remember the openly gay man had said that if he had left his wife; she would have been blamed for the divorce, although we, as westerners, would see that as the mans fault. Another things was this emphasis on male life and worth versus a females life and worth. East Asian culture really seems to be very cut and dry about men versus women. One of my favorite kind of revolutionary music artists, M.I.A. Has this song called "Bad Girls" where she is seemingly spitting in the face of Middle Eastern cultures. In the song she speaks about "suki" "suuqii" which means to drive in Arabic; women specifically in Saudi Arabia are NOT allowed to drive but, in the video, she has these middle eastern women driving. Driving in this song is a symbol for getting Arab women free, and now that’s a thing that can make them tremble hard. The idea of women’s liberation is an intimidating thought for traditional middle eastern men. Although M.I.A. is ethnically Sri Lankan and spent most of her formative years in Great Britain, I'm sure she pulls this from the oppression women from her country and other countries have faced. This idea of male supremacy is a huge gender equality argument and I don't think it's addressed enough here in this country. It definitely isn't discussed as much as it needs to be in places like the Middle East and East Asia.

[inawomansworld]

365 days of sex-reversed quotes

photo credit:  geezaweezer

[theartsofbeautymjm]

The Arts of Beauty: Feminine Dress & Adornment, 1774-1865. Opens May 3, 2013

In 1858, Lola Montez published the book The Arts of Beauty Or; Secrets of a Lady’s Toilet: With Hints to Gentlemen on the Art of Fascinating, instructing women on how to preserve their charms. Madame Montez believed that beauty was a woman’s most important quality; she stated, “My design in this volume is to discuss the various Arts employed by sex in the pursuit of this paramount object of woman’s life.” The Arts of Beauty: Feminine Dress and Adornment, 1774–1865 investigates the central role beauty played in the lives of women, especially in high society, by analyzing the woman's toilette, dress and accessories; three components which were essential in the creation of a lady's image. During the 18th and 19th century, the lady's toilette held a ritualistic importance; simultaneously, her clothes and accessories communicated her taste, status as well as dictated manners and customs. The exhibition includes over twenty objects from The Morris-Jumel Mansion's permanent collection and fashion plates from Godey's Lady's Book to illustrate the importance of feminine beauty and adornment during the period. 

This display is in part with the exhibition The Loves of Aaron Burr: Portraits in Corsetry and Binding.

Conservation was made possible by the Historic House Trust, Curatorial Fund.

Detail of Fan. 19th century (possible reproduction). The Morris-Jumel Mansion

Photography: Peter Hoffmeister