From Rational Dress to Balloon-Boob Boogaloo

“Self-expression” and the limits of the bit

Mary E. Walker and Kayla Lemieux

The debasing and unsatisfying babble of representation through another, of the beauty of feminine delicacy and dependence, has had time to echo and reecho itself… she has listened to it, paid homage to it—she is weary of it, she feels its emptiness with reference to that inward life which is not yet utterly extinguished.

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