TY - JOUR
T1 - How Clothes Make the Woman Immoral
T2 - Impressions Given Off by Sexualized Clothing
AU - Montemurro, Beth
AU - Gillen, Meghan M.
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This research was supported by the Penn State Abington Career Development Professorship and the Rubin Fund.
PY - 2013/7
Y1 - 2013/7
N2 - The goal of the present study was to examine clothing as a marker of women's sexuality. Ninety-five women in their 20s - 60s participated in in-depth interviews. Many women reported concern with sexual messages others might perceive from their clothing, and judged other women's clothing on the dimensions of authenticity, morality, and appropriateness. Self- and other- clothing judgments varied by the target's age, marital status, and parental status, and for other-judgments, by social class and generation. Results suggest that women's bodies are socially monitored and that sexual subjectivity is suppressed through the stigmatization of women's sexualized dress.
AB - The goal of the present study was to examine clothing as a marker of women's sexuality. Ninety-five women in their 20s - 60s participated in in-depth interviews. Many women reported concern with sexual messages others might perceive from their clothing, and judged other women's clothing on the dimensions of authenticity, morality, and appropriateness. Self- and other- clothing judgments varied by the target's age, marital status, and parental status, and for other-judgments, by social class and generation. Results suggest that women's bodies are socially monitored and that sexual subjectivity is suppressed through the stigmatization of women's sexualized dress.
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U2 - 10.1177/0887302X13493128
DO - 10.1177/0887302X13493128
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84880726444
SN - 0887-302X
VL - 31
SP - 167
EP - 181
JO - Clothing and Textiles Research Journal
JF - Clothing and Textiles Research Journal
IS - 3
ER -