Modesty and Feminisms: Conversations on Aesthetics and Resistance.
In the last decade, hundreds of advocates in blogs, magazines, and social networking sites have promoted modesty as an empowering style. By dressing and acting modestly, girls and young women are promised the capacity to effectively deflect sexual objectification. Popular feminist critics have respo...
| Publicado en: | Feminist Formations Vol. 24; no. 3; pp. 22 - 43 |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
Winter2012
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