Jiggle: (Re)Shaping American Women explores the relationship between American women and their bodies as mediated by both traditional and contemporary foundation garments. This post-corsetry study begins in the 1930s with a discussion of traditional foundation garments and continues with an analysis of contemporary shapewear as these garments shape women physically; culturally; and socially. Jiggle focuses on the corporate; cultural; and individual practices and meanings of womens experiences with foundation garments. Referencing trade journals; industry data; statistics; advertisements; and telephone surveys and interviews with women; author Wendy Burns-Ardolino examines how the contested terrain of fashion and beauty culture reflect larger cultural power struggles. Jiggle argues that women should not be complicit in alienating themselves from their bodies; but rather should embrace their bodies multiple capacities as they practice fasion; femininity; and gendered performatives.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Undecided Authorship; but Certainly Good DramaBy Michael WischmeyerBrian Gibbons; editor of the New Mermaids second edition (1991); describes The Revengers Tragedy (1607) as a minor masterpiece. Judged against contemporaneous revenge plays like Hamlet and King Lear (and even Titus Andronicus); the term minor certainly does not imply inferior. Minor or not; The Revengers Tragedy deserves five stars. I found it as much easier reading than most Elizabethan and Jacobean plays.Despite its title; The Revengers Tragedy is no more bloody than Thomas Kyds The Spanish Tragedy (fifteen years earlier) and it is certainly not as insanely gruesome and brutal as Shakespeares Titus Andronicus (1594). No dismemberments and no cannibalism. Bloody; yes. But not excessively so.Nonetheless; we learn of a murder; a rape leading to a suicide; and yet another aggressive seduction (or rape; if need be) that is in the planning stage. So ends Act 1. Revenge and mayhem follow.The plot is not unduly complex. Vindice desires revenge for the poisoning death of his betrothed; Gloriana; by the lustful; aging Duke. Vindice also indirectly blames the Duke for his fathers death; though "he died of discontent; the noblemans consumption". Vindice is perhaps obsessive; he has retained Glorianas skull and sometimes speaks directly to her.In disguise he provokes discord between his enemies and leads them to plot against each other. (This ruse reminds me of Malevoles subterfuge in John Marstons play; The Malcontent.) A poisoned skull; a mistaken execution; and a murderous banquet highlight the later acts. The play concludes with an ironic twist; possibly added as a moral lesson; or simply to surprise the audience.Hats off to either Cyril Tourneur or Thomas Middleton; or whoever may have authored this fascinating revenge play.Update July; 2007: I recently encountered reference to this lesser known play in a murder mystery. Cecil Day-Lewis; Poet Laureate from 1968 until his death in 1972; wrote sophisticated mysteries under the pseudonym Nicholas Blake from the mid-1930s to the early 1960s. Thou Shell of Death (1936) is a revenge murder patterned on The Revengers Tragedy. In the first scene Vindice speaking to the skull of his dead mistress says: "My studys ornament; thou shell of death; Once the bright face of my betrothed lady ...."Note: The Revengers Tragedy is included in the Oxford Worlds Classics edition titled Four Revenge Tragedies (edited by Katherine Eisaman Maus). Her introduction to this inexpensive paperback edition compares The Revengers Tragedy to three contemporaneous revenger plays.0 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Comedy at its finest.By Coma CrushObviously the comedy isnt intentional; but its impossible to read this and keep a straight face. Its even harder to read it aloud; act it out; or write essays on it. If you need a good; sick laugh along with the intellectual challenge of translating early modern English; order this.