This standard of representation of the woman defined the woman's place in society. ... From a negative angle of representing women, artists would create scenes that showed the deadly consequences of a woman betraying her accepted social role. Some of these scenes showed reversed gender roles, men displaying their superiority, women suffering for betraying their defined social roles. ...
This value system denied sexual exploration and rigidly defined sexual orientation with governmental control. ... Meyer introduces a tall forceful woman capable of physically dominating her male counter part, Robert Ebert explains, "Take away all the jokes, the elaborate camera angles, the violence, the action and the sex, and what remains is the quintessential Russ Meyer image: a towering woman with enormous breasts, who dominates all the men around her, demands sexual satisfaction and casts off men in the same way that, in mainstream sexual fantasies, men cast aside women." ...
This is a Man's World I knew I had to do it, but it was hard to bring myself up to the register. Slowly putting the magazine I had chosen down onto the desk , I looked up and saw the cashier giving me "the look." The look you get when you have just committed an act of deviance. Here I was, a 6'1...
The male characters use their knowledge and experience to look for the criminal evidence the murder left, while the female characters us a different angle, a wife's everyday pattern, to approach the truth. ... Henderson defines not only Mrs. ...
