When a Wanderess has been caged, or perched with her wings clipped, She lives like a Stoic, She lives most heroic, smiling with ruby, moistened lips once her cup of Death is welcome sipped.
An economy that depends on slavery needs to promote images of slaves that __ustify_ the institution of slavery. The contemporary economy depends right now on the representation of women within the beauty myth. Economist John KennethGalbraith offers an economic explanation for __he persistence of the view of homemaking as a __igher calling__: the concept of women as naturally trapped within the Feminine Mystique, he feels, __as been forced on us by popular sociology, by magazines, and by fiction to disguise the fact that woman in her role of consumer has been essential to the development of our industrial society_. Behavior that is essential for economic reasons is transformed into a social virtue.
The Beauty Myth
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An economy that depends on slavery needs to promote images of slaves that __ustify_ the institution of slavery. The contemporary economy depends right now on the representation of women within the beauty myth. Economist John KennethGalbraith offers an economic explanation for __he persistence of the view of homemaking as a __igher calling__: the concept of women as naturally trapped within the Feminine Mystique, he feels, __as been forced on us by popular sociology, by magazines, and by fiction to disguise the fact that woman in her role of consumer has been essential to the development of our industrial society_. Behavior that is essential for economic reasons is transformed into a social virtue.
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