q1. Joan Jacobs Brumberg concludes her 1997 essay “Breast Buds and the Training Bra” with the assertion that “the training bras of the 1950s loom large in the history of adolescent girls because they foreshadowed the ways in which the nation’s entrepreneurs would accommodate, and also encourage, precocious sexuality.”
Do a Google search on one of the terms in the list below and report on a result from your search (blog, video, news report, interview, or anything else you find).
Precocious sexuality
Hypersexualized children
Corporate pedophilia
How does the training bra and all its implications foreshadow, as Jacobs Brumberg says, the result you find? How has gender been learned in this scenario?
q2. Body art (tattoos, body piercings, body reshaping, and body painting) is a gendered practice. Pick one common body modification practice in the United States and explain how it reinforces gender. In your response, refer to at least one of the texts or the lecture in this week’s module.
Readings
Brumberg, J. J. (1997). Breast Buds and the “Training” Bra (pp. 108-118).Links to an external site.
Steinem, G. (1978). If Men Could Menstruate.Links to an external site.
Mairs, N. (1987). HersLinks to an external site. (if you have no access to NY times left use alternative link here: Hers)Links to an external site.
Tannen, D. (1993). There is No Unmarked Woman. Download There is No Unmarked Woman.
BlablaWriting. (n.d.). “The Story of My Body” by Judith Ortiz Cofer, and “Never Just Pictures” by Susan Bordo.Links to an external site.
Walker, A. (1983). Beauty, When the Other Dancer Is the Self.
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