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Exploring a Diary-Style Exposé

Exploring a Diary-Style Exposé. Background. Born to a traveling salesman and an editor of the Toledo Blade Grew up with a mentally unstable mother Vowed never to let herself become a victim Attended Smith College. Breaking Cultural Norms. Studied abroad

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Exploring a Diary-Style Exposé

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  1. Exploring a Diary-Style Exposé

  2. Background Born to a traveling salesman and an editor of the Toledo Blade Grew up with a mentally unstable mother Vowed never to let herself become a victim Attended Smith College

  3. Breaking Cultural Norms Studied abroad Helped the Gandhians attract female members Moved to NYC Didn't identify with The Feminine Mystique

  4. Undercover Bunny "Show wanted to capitalize on the curiosity surrounding the new Clubs" (Wheaton).

  5. Landing the Bunny Role Adopted the alias, Marie Ochs, a name "much too square to be phony" (Steinem).

  6. A Gendered Performance "We don't like our girls to have any background” (Bunny Mother). "We just want you to fit the Bunny image” (Bunny Mother).

  7. Measuring Up The costume was "darted and seamed until it was two inches smaller than any of my other measurements everywhere except the bust” "I was sure it would be perilous to bend over"

  8. Extra Expenses Costume upkeep and maintenance Mandatory eyelash fitting and makeup demonstration Fake eyelashes, rouge, tights, heels

  9. The Bunny Bible "They key to selling more drinks is Customer Contact…they will respond particularly to your efforts to be friendly“ “Gender roles in conduct manuals are often reinforced by pictorial representations of the ‘true’ woman…” (Johnson).

  10. Willmark Representatives "Our licenses are laid on the line any time any of our employees in any way, engages, aids, or abets traffic prostitution....“ “Use your most attractive and personable male representatives to proposition the Bunnies..."

  11. The Demerit System A tattered tail, torn tights, unkempt hair, messy makeup, or too short of high heels are all worthy of demerits "Failure to keep a doctor's appointment, 20 demerits"

  12. Bunny Mother Lecture “The Club takes 50 percent of the first $30 worth of those that are charged, 25 percent of amounts up to $60, and 5 percent after that”

  13. Number One Keyholders "Number One Keyholders are given special treatment..."

  14. Steinem’s First Night Steinem describes working as the "Hat Check Bunny for $12 flat” “The zipper had left a welt over my spine”

  15. Bunny Convos Steinem says she goes into work early to learn more about her "sister Bunnies” Confronts them with the false advertising in the recruitment brochures

  16. Her Final Days “I said maybe we ought to join a union” (Steinem). “In programming us with, as one Bunny put it, ‘all that glamour crap’, the Club sometimes defeated itself” (Steinem).

  17. After A Bunny’s Tale • Occasional phone calls from Bunnies around the world “with revelations about their working conditions and the sexual demands on them” • Other Bunnies tried to unionize

  18. Sources http://www.smith.edu/libraries/libs/ssc/news/conf-Steinem.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feminine_Mystique http://www.gloriasteinem.com/storage/I%20Was%20a%20Playboy%20Bunny.pdf http://faculty.wagner.edu/lori-weintrob/gloria-steinem/ http://www.costaricantimes.com/tag/playboy-bunny http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/03/fashion/thursdaystyles/03PLAYBOY.html?_r=0 http://lallyofleisure.com/2013/10/18/becoming-a-bunny-girl/ http://www.whatshauteinthestreets.com/2011/10/25/what-to-wear-to-a-halloween-costume-party/ http://dailyglean.salebooks.com/2011_06_01_archive.html http://www.gloriasteinem.com/storage/I%20Was%20a%20Playboy%20Bunny.pdf http://0-ehis.ebscohost.com.uncclc.coast.uncwil.edu/conn/node3/795894/web.ebscohost.com/pov/detail?sid=bf5b52a2-0e21-491d-825a-8ceb78b13f0b%40sessionmgr10&vid=1&hid=20&bdata=JnNpdGU9cG92LWxpdmU%3d#db=pwh&AN=9797860 https://www.google.com/search?q=gloria+steinem&espv=210&es_sm=93&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=JJeCUvKJDaaqsQS674CQCQ&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ#es_sm=93&espv=210&q=gloria+steinem&tbm=isch&facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=t8EM0mPod7quQM%3A%3B0SvRKyQAn4i6iM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fthecommongood.net%252Fwp-content%252Fuploads%252F2012%252F02%252Fgloria-steinem1.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fthecommongood.net%252F2012%252F02%252Fgloria-steinem-march-21st%252F%3B295%3B374 http://theboweryboys.blogspot.com/2010/09/mad-men-notes-nights-at-new-york.html

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