Is the "Cosmo" woman for Real? What is a real woman?

Date:   5/5/2005 10:45:51 AM ( 19 y ago)

I have a near and dear woman friend,
who has been asking that I be more
sensitive about seeing how women
are portrayed in the media as
the "Cosmo" woman, in other words
something made by Madison Avenue.

This article--in Judy Chicago's
links of poetry, I find very enlightening.

Today is a day to increase understanding
between women and men.

That is why I will be promoting The Seven Love Cures,
my words that men need to know and Women want to hear.

The Seven Love Cures are now
available as Poetry Plaques.
The book is still forming in my mind,
now that The Seven Love Cures are basically
ready to be released.

http://www.lesliegoldman.com/Worlds_Greatest_Lovers/id74.htm

This article here, that I learned about
from a link on Judy Chicago's site, is important!!!

IT begins here:

Her girlhood's hopeless years through cycles long

Had been a martyrdom of sexua| wrong.

Elizabeth Wolstenholme (1893)

The "Cosmo woman" either does not bleed at all, or her menstrual blood is blue. Her body does not grow hair, except on her head. She never sweats, has no cellulite or rough skin, her cuticles always pushed back, eye-brows plucked, skin free from chemical interference. The "Cosmo woman's" body is not so much a platonic ideal as it is a norm, with which "real" women are supposed to comply. Only they always fail. The main cause of the failure is the one which, unlike hair or cellulite, they cannot get rid of and that is menstrual bleeding. Paradoxically, popular culture both reduces woman to a body and somehow deprives her of its physicality. This essay tries to examine the ways in which the bleeding body has functioned in popular culture as well as to present Janice Galloway's "menstrual narrative" in "Blood."

http://www.mum.org/morusiew.htm

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