"the Harsh Reality of Being a Woman": First Bra Experiences (1) (Essay) "the Harsh Reality of Being a Woman": First Bra Experiences (1) (Essay)

"the Harsh Reality of Being a Woman": First Bra Experiences (1) (Essay‪)‬

Ethnologies 2007, Spring-Fall, 29, 1-2

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L'achat du premier soutien-gorge, qui implique le port du premier soutien-gorge ou du moins le premier soutien-gorge achete specifiquement pour une jeune femme, introduit deux phases allant au-dela de l'idee de la fille se demarquant en tant que femme : une vie entiere a porter des soutiens-gorges et une vie entiere a en acheter. Afin d'explorer quelques-unes des consequences qu'implique le fait d'utiliser l'expression rites de passage dans des contextes contemporains, cet article cherche a identifier les elements relevant du rite dans l'achat du premier soutien-gorge. Il s'agit d'une activite plus ou moins inevitable dans la culture feminine nord-americaine ; c'est une transaction commerciale, qui peut donc etre soumise a des questions de statut socio-economique ; et elle est inherente aux transformations de la puberte, tant physiologique que sociale (au sens que lui donne van Gennep). Enfin, bien qu'elle soit distincte de la sexualite adolescente, elle en est neanmoins virtuellement indissociable et reste donc une activite sexuee, de celles dont le chercheur de terrain de sexe masculin est exclu, pour des raisons qui vont bien au-dela de la simple indecence. The first bra purchase, which implies the first bra wearing or at least the first bra specifically purchased for the young woman, introduces two phases beyond the demarcation of girl as woman: a lifetime of wearing bras and a lifetime of shopping for bras. In an effort to explore some of the consequences of using the term "rites of passage" in contemporary contexts, this article sets out to identify the elements common to the "rite" of the first bra purchase. It is an activity more or less inevitable in North American women's culture; it is a commercial transaction, and thus can be affected by socioeconomic class status; and it is inherently associated with the transformations of puberty, both physiological and social (in van Gennep's sense). Finally, although it is distinct from adolescent sexuality, it is nevertheless virtually inextricable therefrom and thus a gendered activity, one from which the male fieldworker is excluded for reasons that extend far beyond mere impropriety.

GENRE
Non-Fiction
RELEASED
2007
22 March
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
45
Pages
PUBLISHER
Ethnologies
SIZE
222.9
KB

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