--- On Mon, 9/22/08, Henry M. Taylor <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: Henry M. Taylor <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Cultural query
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Monday, September 22, 2008, 6:43 PM
> This question is (at prima facie at least) not at all
> film-specific:
> How come women (in the western world) almost always seem to
> be more
> scantily dressed than men, revealing more of their bodies?
Unfiltered first ideas: Laura Mulvey / the male gaze, Andrea Dworkin (men possessing women), beach volleyball (female players were requested to limit the size of their outfit to make the sports more appealing to advertisers), Ralph Giordano´s comment about Penguins and "aesthetics", Gaddhafi´s note about omnipresent nudity in Europe, the documentary "Sex sells" about female nudity in advertising for French and German television.
On a very basic level, the widespread assumption / ideology that women don´t show more of their bodies, but that they ARE more bodies (than intellectdriven beings) when compared with men.
Art history is full of nude women, and you might easily find something interesting written about Gaugin e.g. (discussing the idea of nudity as a natural state, not as something that´s meant to "attract" or "reveal something to a (male) someone".)
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