Ivanka Trump Nitpicked over Nip Pic

Clothing and Textiles Research Journal, 2017

Postpartum women who wish to engage in physical activity and breastfeed their children are at greater risk for breast soreness due to increased breast volume and sensitivity associated with breastfeeding. An apparel product that supports both good breastfeeding practices and physical activity has the potential to improve the health of both mother and child. The purpose of this research was to understand the design requirements of physically active breastfeeding women for a sports bra design. The researchers applied user-centered methods to develop a nursing sports bra prototype based on data from a focus group. The researchers created a two-layer bra concept to improve breast support and provide the convenience of nursing. Through wear trials, participants found the prototype to be successful in providing breast support with the added advantage of being able to nurse a child, resulting in a novel bra concept that addresses many needs of active breastfeeding women.

In the age of reason, there is no room for taboos, especially about the human body. Taboos veil the body in mystery and superstition, and prevent the scientific inquiry necessary for the advancement of human knowledge, including medical knowledge. In Western culture, one of the most taboo areas of human anatomy are the female breasts. Not surprisingly, the breasts are a leading sites for disease, including cancer.

Health experts are in widespread agreement that breastfeeding is generally the best option for infants and their mothers. The right to breastfeed in public has been guaranteed in forty-seven states in the US as a means to support nursing mothers and their babies, yet breastfeeding in public remains a controversial act. This project represents a textual analysis of news articles in the top ten newspapers in the United States to study the way breastfeeding is framed. We focus particular attention on the way one word, "nipple, " is treated in news coverage and argue that by using this word in connection with sexuality or pathology, news reports inhibit efforts to normalize nursing. Our findings suggest that because of journalism's role in framing public discourse, a more frank, frequent and open use of the word nipple might better serve the needs of maternal-infant health.

2019

One of the first things many women do when they get home from work is to take off their uncomfortable bra. For these women who suffer from bras, there’s good news. Change is busting out at the workplace that will create happier, healthier working women. Legal decisions are concluding that employers cannot force women to wear clothing that men do not have to wear for the same job, just because they are female. This means the bra usage should be optional at work, and there needs to be a change in work culture to accommodate bra-free women.

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2004

Drawing on qualitative data from a sample of pregnant women in Hobart, Australia this article uses 'feminist' 'memory work' and the 'photovoice' method as frames for discussing the ways in which interviews and participantproduced photographs may be used to trace and understand pregnant embodiment. I argue that digital photographs taken by women during pregnancy can reveal important information about how they negotiate their own experiences of breastedness and wearing maternity underwear over time. Here, the concept of 'breastedness' itself is expanded as women's individual embodied experiences of pregnancy are reflected in the production and viewing of their own photographic images.

2013

In the twenty-first century, the distinction between dress and body is increasingly becoming more indistinguishable. A thorough analysis of the relationship between dress and cosmetic surgery is vital to the field of fashion studies. In western histories of dress, considerations of cosmetic surgery are typically found as a concluding chapter, presented to the reader as a commodity of post modernity and the future of body shaping. This thesis is an analysis of cosmetic surgery through the perspective of fashion studies in which I ask: what is the relationship between temporarily shaping the body through clothing and permanently shaping the body through cosmetic surgery? If bodies undergo cosmetic surgery procedures as a response to the experience of wearing fashionable clothing, can cosmetic surgery then be understood as a permanent form of dress? Focusing solely on cosmetic procedures of breast for this case study, I explore how the experience of dressing through bras and clothing can anticipate the decision to undergo a breast reduction or breast augmentation procedure. My analysis includes interviews with three women, currently in their twenties, who underwent either a breast reduction or breast augmentation operation when they were between the ages of sixteen to twenty years of age. Through these interviews, I situate clothing as agent of influence on an individuals self-perception of their own body. In doing so, I argue that cosmetic surgery creates bodies that mirror the practices of dress. This thesis aims to demonstrate how our second skins, our undergarments and our clothing, are instrumental in fashioning our primary skin, our bodies.