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Modesty, sculpture by Louis-Léopold Chambard, 1861 Recreation on a California beach in the first decade of the 20th century. Modesty, sometimes known as demureness, is a mode of dress and deportment which intends to avoid the encouraging of sexual attraction in others.
632 AD: Quran teachings transmitted by Muhammad impose modest dress on men and women. c. 1050 AD: Leofric, Earl of Mercia imposes a heavy tax burden on the citizens of Coventry, England to support his grandiose public works. According to legend that is almost certainly untrue, his wife Godgyfu begs him to reduce the tax, and he tells her that ...
During the Tang dynasty (7th to 9th centuries), women in China were increasingly freer than before and by the mid-Tang, their décolleté dresses became quite liberated. [29] The Tang women inherited the traditional ruqun gown and modified it by opening up the collar to expose their cleavage, which had previously been unimaginable. [ 30 ]
[16] [17] The relative lightness of female compared to male skin in a given population may be due to the greater need for women to produce more vitamin D during lactation. [18] The sweat glands in humans could have evolved to spread from the hands and feet as the body hair changed, or the hair change could have occurred to facilitate sweating.
Another Japanese tradition was the women free-divers (ama, 海女) who for 2,000 years until the 1960s collected seaweed and shellfish nude or wearing only loincloths. [116] Women farmers often worked bare-breasted during the summer [117] while other workers might be nude. [116]
Angela Carter first did this in 1979 with The Bloody Chamber, a powerfully savage collection that morphs delicate Beauty into a beastly tigress. Rather than merely mocking the conventions upheld by sedate, waif-like princesses, she kept the appealing structures of popular fairy tales in place, filling them in with uncensored human subjects.
This shifted in the early 1920s when the new feminine idea became based on the body. [4] Women revealed more of their bodies in 1920s clothing; and at the same time they began using bras, makeup, and dieting. [4] Author of The Body Project, J. Brumberg, summarizes, "The body itself became the fashion in the 1920s."
From ancient history to the modern day, the clitoris has been discredited, dismissed and deleted -- and women's pleasure has often been left out of the conversation entirely. Now, an underground art movement led by artist Sophia Wallace is emerging across the globe to challenge the lies, question the myths and rewrite the rules around sex and the female body.