In America, women are in a loose-loose situation when it comes to appearance. If a woman is barely wearing clothes she is considered tasteless, and if she is wearing too much she is considered a prude. The way women dress and do their make-up is constantly judged. I connected Gloria Lockett's experience of being a prostitute to Elena Dorfman's Rebecca 2, from the series of Still Lovers because this image made me think about the situation the author was in as she struggled with being sent to jail as a prostitute because of her appearance. In this image the woman has on heels and a long skirt, but also portrays a woman of strong sex appeal. In many circumstances, women use their sexuality to their advantage when issues such as arrest occur, even though society looks down upon it. If women act in such a manner, they oppress themselves and other women, but it is not always in every situation that the woman initiates the sexual advantage. As continued in the description, women are also oppressed by men, not just themselves, which turns out to be a viscous cycle of sociological oppression. It is either the woman gets what she needs by degrading herself, or the man degrades her.
Frederique Delacoste, Priscilla Alexander, Sex Work (San Francisco: Cleis Press, 1987), page 39.
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