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And speaking of strict constructionism…
January 3, 2010 — Elizabeth
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January 3, 2010 at 10:16 pm
Wow! Thanks for posting that. I’ve always wondered what was going on with the headless girls, and it’s good to know it’s for an actual reason.
January 4, 2010 at 1:22 pm
Haha! Totally plausible!
January 4, 2010 at 2:50 pm
I can see why that one won. It really is a good myth!
January 24, 2010 at 7:38 pm
Strange that it should be deemed better to have partial body shots of young adult women. I seem to remember in college studying the dehumanizing effect of these headless sexy bodies: it is not the person, but the sex that is valued there. Dressen’s cover art seems very much in the style of Vogue magazine’s carefully explicit sub-pornographic advertisements.