Men's corsets??

This is a video i've found on YouTube which shows this man tiding up a corset on himself.. The speed of the first part contrasting with the slow of the second bit.
Movement wise i thought it was interesting.

Women's sensuality : French cabaret song..

This a song called "Les nuits d'une demoiselle" by Colette Renard, a french comedian and singer.
This song speaks about what this "demoiselle" (miss) is doing all nights, and the fact is that she is masturbating. But she's using very poetic and hilarious expressions to say it.
I just like the fact that she is talking very nicely about her own sex, while if we think about, most part of the time we remember ugly and bad words to describe it.
So the way she's assuming her sensuality, her physical power as a woman, please me(probably because it is part of my piece as well).
I'm sorry that is in french, but i can still translate few of them if you want me to!

Woman dance

This is an video of "La Danse Serpentine" by Loïe Fuller (american artist and dancer, 1862-1928) who created a new form of dance by playing with body movements, very light fabrics and colored lightning. The movements that she gives to the fabric are very interesting and the visual look of it as well. She started to tour in Europe, Germany and France, and her first representations in Paris were a huge succes : the dadaïsts were very interested in her work and mainly the women artists.

A Girdle to Set You Free

Here is a scene from Mona Lisa Smile which I think relates a lot to our recent discussions on Feminism (the first half of the clip is more relevant than the second half). The film is set in a private women's college during the 1950s.

"Watson tries to open her students' minds to their freedom to do whatever they want with their lives. She encourages her students to believe in themselves, to study to become career professionals, and to improve their economic futures. She uses her art teachings as a vehicle to put across her opinion to the young women that her students need not conform to stereotypes of women made by society, or the roles made for them by society, as women born to become housewives and mothers. She feels that women could do more things in life than solely adopt the roles of wives and mothers.
In [this] scene of the movie, she shows her students four newspaper ads, and asks them to question what the future will think of the idea that women are born into the roles of wives and mothers." (Wikipedia)

Genders in different cultures

Here are some clips from the National Geographic series on taboos. These clips come from the same episode "The Third Sex", exploring genders in different cultures.

The 5 Genders in South Sulawesi (Indonesia)




The Third Gender (Fa'afafine) in Samoa




Eunuchs (Hijras) in India