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Notes
12 New York Times A19 (January 25, 1991). A Moscow brokerage house
advertisement for women secretaries, 18-21 years old, told them to wear
a mini-skirt to the interview. An advertising firm seeking a receptionist
asked women to submit full-length photos, preferably in a bikini to
display their "full super-attractiveness." New York Times 13 (September
12, 1992) (oped).
13 New York Times B12 (December 11, 1991).
14 New York Times B1 (April 15, 1992).
15 New York Times 1 (February 15, 1992).
16 New York Times B1 (January 23, 1991).
17 New York Times s. 1 p.69 (December 15, 1991). Dalma Heyn's The Erotic
Silence of the American Wife (1992) was much ballyhooed as a call for
eliminating the double standard by ending monogamous fidelity for
women as well as men.
It's about time women gave voice to all their dimensions, including the
erotic, without shrinking in guilt. (Gail Sheehy)
Dalma Heyn has shown us a new reality and a tantalizing hint of the
future—and neither women nor marriage will ever be the same. (Gloria
Steinem)
Heyn reminds us ... that women are sexual beings and that, for
women as well as men, sex is a fundamentally lawless creature, not
easily confined to a cage. (Barbara Ehrenreich)
Dalma Heyn exposes the lie that men, by nature, play around and
women, by nature, are monogamous. (Louise Bemikow)
New York Times B2 (June 17, 1992) (advertisement).
Male actors, singers, and athletes have always been sex objects.
Women law students comment on cute male professors in teaching
evaluations and bathroom graffiti. Now other male performers are seeking
to exploit their sexuality. EMI Classics promoted Tzimon Barto's "Chopin
Preludes" with publicity photos showing him without a shirt. The female
vice president of marketing explained: "What we are trying to do is
represent the artist as a whole person. Not only does he play the piano
beautifully, but he's also a body builder ..." Trying to make a Swiss
harpist "a sex symbol of classical music," the company photographed
him in bed with his harp. The performer conceded: "we try to use the fact
that I'm young, that I do sports, I lift weights, whatever to catch the
attention of the people to listen." New York Times B4 (September 14,
1992).
18 Walker (1980); Teish (1980); Crenshaw (1991). Consider the reaction of
black men to Alice Walker's The Color Purple (both the novel and film), or
of the black women in Spike Lee's "Jungle Fever" to the interracial love
affair. See also Campbell (1992) and the reader response. New York
Times Magazine 12-13 (September 13, 1992) (letters to The Editor).
19 Mercer (1990: 45^9).
20 Camille Paglia has cynically pursued an academic and media career by
attacking feminism. She recently wrote that "every woman must take
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