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CRITICISM AS ESPIONAGE AND DESCENT AS TREASON
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" Love trumps hate "
John Avalon Author "Indapendant Nation"
The responsibility of the vital center.
illusions
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art
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The end of america Naomi Wolf
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The end of america Naomi Wolf 6PM C-Span Sunday
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Naome Wolf
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http://www.centenary.edu/news/2006/March/gs-conference.html
Keynote speaker Naomi Wolf, who is the bestselling author of The Beauty Myth and other books,
spoke on Friday night about the social expectations for beauty standards that pressure women
to obsess about their physical appearances instead of expending energy on worthwhile pursuits.
See advance article Snapshots of ACS Gender Studies Conference Held at Centenary College of
Louisiana March 24-25 SHREVEPORT, LA— The Associated Colleges of the South held its seventh
biennial Women's and Gender Studies Conference on the campus of Centenary College of Louisiana
March 24-25. Conference coordinators Drs. Kim VanHoosier-Carey and Michelle Wolkomir were
charged with planning and organizing the conference by Centenary Provost Darrel Colson nearly
one year ago and spent many months preparing for the weekend's events.
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http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/0201.larson.html
January/February 2002
Of Corset Matters
A review of Valerie Steele's The Corset: A Cultural HistoryBuy the book
By Christina Larson
Of Corset Matters
Third-wave feminists waving copies of Naomi Wolf's The Beauty Myth once proclaimed that men had hatched an ominous
conspiracy to trick women into pursuing an impossible beauty ideal rather than real social progress. In The Corset:
A Cultural History, Valerie Steele lays waste to that doctrine by documenting the extent to which women, not men,
have historically policed the ideals of femininity, often in spite of the objections of bewildered men.
No Victoria's Secret bimbo, Steele is serious about her subject. In her hands, the history of fashion is treated as
a study of the intersection of beauty ideals with new technologies that enable them. Chief curator at the Fashion
Institute of Technology in New York, Steele teamed up with cardiologist Dr. Lynn Kutsche to investigate the havoc
wreaked by tight-laced corsets on women, from the late Renaissance Madonna Catherine de Medici to the more modern
Material Girl. Steele thumbed through early medical journals for accounts of corset-induced casualties and trekked
to the Smithsonian Institute to examine its collection of female skeletons with rib deformities.
Though commonly associated with Victorian upper-class matrons, corsets originated much earlier, in the 16th century,
and by the 19th had become a hallmark of fashion for women of nearly all classes. Practically compulsory for women
of aristocratic birth, corsets were also adopted by working women who aspired toward similar ideals of fashion. One
popular line of mass-produced corsets in the 1880s was the "Pretty Housemaid" model.
Fetishists aside, gentlemen of the 19th century did not strap their women into corsets in order to titillate their
erotic fancies, as some conspiracy theorists would have us believe.
One male beauty writer, Ernest Feydeau, even wondered in print why "the generality of women envy [these] elegant
monstrosities."
Many men, especially doctors, warned women of the dangers of lacing corsets too tight and some advised not wearing a
corset at all. Steele found that The Lancet, a preeminent British medical journal, published "more than an article
a year from the late 1860s to the early 1890s on the medical dangers of tight-lacing."
One famous rant against the corset in 1874, "Madre Natura versus the Moloch of Fashion," enumerates 97 different
"diseases produced by Stays and Corsets according to the testimony of eminent medical men." The alleged symptoms
ranged from the rational (impaired breathing and circulation) to the pseudo-scientific (heightened hysteria and
melancholy) to those characteristic of the premodern obsession with reproductive well-being (the inability to
breast-feed properly and the danger of miscarriage or deformed offspring).
That's not to say, though, that these early doctors were sounding the alarm in hopes to liberate women from their
lowly social status. Most of this early anti-corset literature was clearly misogynistic, maligning the waist-cinching
undergarment alternately as evidence and as cause of "innate" female irrationality. Instead, the male doctors'
concerns about women's health stemmed largely from their concerns over women's ability to procreate. Steele shows
that criticism of the corset increased during periods of low fertility.
Though absolved of the most drastic claims lobbed against it (Steele could not determine that any of the Smithsonian
skeletons were deformed by tight-lacing), corsets did contribute to a variety of milder ailments, including shallow
breathing, shortness of breath, atrophied back muscles, and potential difficulty in labor. Victorian heroines'
heaving bosoms and fainting tendencies were more likely induced by insufficient oxygen and upper-diaphramic breathing
than by arousal in the embraces of mustachioed lovers.
Despite the obvious physical inconveniences, as well as admonitions of both doctors and philosophers against such an
"unnatural" fashion---Thorstein Veblen condemned the corset as "a mutilation, undergone for the purpose of lowering
the subjects' vitality" in his 1899 Theory of the Leisure Class---the market for mass-produced stays was on the rise
in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Industrialization put fashionable garments within the reach of more and more consumers. Working women didn't need to
pay for tailoring once new steam-molding techniques allowed manufacturers to shape corsets on metal torso frames rather
than taking individual measurements. Catalogues made corsets available to women who didn't live near urban boutiques.
Trade journals such as The Corset and Underwear Review proliferated. Women also produced and peddled corsets. "By the
early nineteenth century, the majority of small and medium-sized corset manufacturers were women," Steele reports,
though she doesn't delve into who reaped the profits from this lucrative industry, which on the eve of the Second
World War raked in $65,000,000 annually (equivalent to nearly $2 billion today).
Women persisted in wearing corsets despite the obvious health problems for complex, and often counterintuitive,
reasons. We assume today that corsets were designed to attract men, but for Victorian women, waist-cinchers helped
establish a class-based pecking order within their own sex. While some early corset advertisements catered to the
fantasy of snaring a husband with a corset-enhanced figure, more common were ads showing women watching women. One
1882 trading card for the Adjustable Duplex Corset depicted two women peeking through a keyhole to discover "Why
Mrs. Brown has such a perfect figure."
The corset facilitated a pernicious association between physical beauty and virtue, as upright posture and a slender
waist came to be regarded as evidence of discipline, modesty, rigor, and refinement. Ladies who abandoned their
stays were scorned as both lazy and immoral. "Older women, not men, were primarily responsible for enforcing sartorial
norms," Steele writes. "The cultural weight placed on propriety and respectability made it difficult for women to
abandon the corset, even if they wanted to."
What eventually happened to the corset? First, a technological change: In 1960 DuPont introduced Lycra into the
manufacturing process, which made whalebone or metal frames obsolete. In effect, the corset became the girdle. Then,
the 1970s, with their bra-burning feminists, brought cries for less restrictive, more natural feminine fashions.
But Steele says the corset, with its moral and postural uplift, didn't vanish altogether. Instead, she doesn't stray
too far from Naomi Wolf, positing that the tools for achieving the feminine ideal have simply changed: "The corset
did not so much disappear as become internalized through diet, exercise, and plastic surgery." Men, though, no longer
seem to object to these body-shaping tools. Instead, they're adopting them. Perhaps that's progress.
Christina Larson is the associate publisher of The Washington Monthly.
This site and all contents within are Copyright © 2006
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http://silverback.gnn.tv/blogs/15901/Ann_Coulter_and_the_doctrine_of_liberal_infallibility
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taking a quick break from writing – am almost there! – thought i’d share my latest procrastinatory vehicle with you.
Ann Coulter on liberal infallibility
what’s so interesting about this video clip is the way that psychological projection works. Coulter says that
because the 9/11 widows are mourning their loss and coming out against Bush, there is no way to reasonably
argue with them. it’s the doctrine of liberal infallibility. but isn’t that exactly the case made by the US
in attacking Iraq and Afghanistan? that we were hit and we needed to hit back? and whoever argued with us was
either insensitive, anti-American or a terrorist?
also, i can’t help but think that her description of the widows as ‘self-obsessed’ ‘millionaires’ ‘reveling in
their status as celebrities’* kind of describes her as well
http://silverback.gnn.tv/blogs/15901/Ann_Coulter_and_the_doctrine_of_liberal_infallibility
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Where Have You Gone Joan Rivers?
by Terry Smith
Listening to conservative commentator Ann Coulter’s performance at this month’s Conservative
Political Action Conference (CPAC ) reminded me of a poor man’s Joan Rivers–a wannabe
comedienne who makes a sensible audience shake their heads rather than laugh. But the audience
at CPAC, intoxicated with racial and political bile, was anything but sensible. The mainstream
media has reported ad nauseam on Coulter’s reference to Democratic presidential candidate John
Edwards as a faggot. Far less accessible and controversial have been her anti-black and anti-Latino
remarks at the conference. For the full video of her remarks, go to http://www.c-span.org/. The
lack of outrage over these comments says much about the media and the American public whose attitudes
the media often reflect.
In describing Bill Clinton as "the first black president," Coulter remarked that he was "half white,
half trash." What does Coulter think of black Republicans? She patronizingly opines, "Our blacks are
so much more impressive than their blacks. . . . Who do they [Democrats] have–Maxine Waters?"
Surprisingly, she doesn’t care much for the Republican National Committee because "the RNC . . .
they criticize the catch an illegal alien game, so I don’t have a lot of respect for them."
Her advice to college Republicans who want to engage in political activism? Play the catch an illegal
alien game and "another great idea, the affirmative action bake sale." The affirmative action bake sale
is a conservative spoof on affirmative action in which cookies are sold to different customers at
different prices depending on their race and gender. One could argue that the bake sale isn’t racist
if he adopts the position that opposition to affirmative action is not racially motivated. Any such
conclusion, however, would require an amnesia of history and suspension of common sense views about human
motive–affirmative action requires whites to internalize some of the cost of historical discrimination
and to forego some ill-gotten generational advantage.
At another point in her presentation, Coulter exclaimed, "Democrats don’t even like blacks."
(I suppose Coulter and her CPAC cult are our best friends.) In another contortion of reason,
Coulter claimed that white liberalism was to blame for conservative college students offering
whites-only scholarships. (Don’t even bother scratching your heads.)
I’m not certain if it’s truly news that Coulter is anti-black-and-Latino and anti-gay. This,
after all, appears to be the way she makes her living. But why the media hasn’t dissected the
racism of her statements as much as the statements’ homophobia is a story in itself.
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Monday, Jul. 02, 2007
I'm more of a man than any liberal.
ANN COULTER
talking with Bill O'Reilly on his Fox show about her aggressive stance toward politicians like John Edwards
Posted by CRIMES AND CORRUPTION OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER NEWS mparent7777 Marc Parent CCNWON at 11:31 AM
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Anonymous said...
The only woman Ann Colter ever takes a back seat to is Eva Braun.
Monday, July 02, 2007
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Field Commander Cohen: Tour of 1979
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http://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/v4/n7/fig_tab/nmat1413_F1.html
Figure 1 - Network models of the three known bicontinuous cubic phases in soft matter.
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From the following article
A triple-network tricontinuous cubicliquid crystal
Xiangbing Zeng, Goran Ungar & Marianne Impéror-Clerc
Nature Materials 4, 562 - 567 (2005) Published online: 5 June 2005
doi:10.1038/nmat1413
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a, Iad (G). b, Pnm (D). c, Imm (P). The two interpenetrating networks are coloured blue and yellow.
White lines delineate the unit cell.
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Journal home > Archive > Article > Full text > Figure 4
Figure 4 - Network model of the Im¯3;m (I) structure and the average radial distributions of
volume for lamellar, columnar and different cubic structures.
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From the following article
A triple-network tricontinuous cubicliquid crystal
Xiangbing Zeng, Goran Ungar & Marianne Impéror-Clerc
Nature Materials 4, 562 - 567 (2005) Published online: 5 June 2005
doi:10.1038/nmat1413
http://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/v4/n7/fig_tab/nmat1413_F4.html
http://www.nature.com/
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