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| 24 | 127 | Such cultural securities and societal defenses View more quotes about removed">removed, she becomes acutely aware of her slightness, her softness, her womanness, her vulnerability. |
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| 24 | 124 | Clothing, for a free woman, functions as police and guardsmen, walls or barriers, shelter and shielding. |
| 24 | 125 | Deprived of it, of its protections, of its loftiness and emblematicity, of its comfort and reassurance, of its pretense and status, she is much other than she was before. |
| 24 | 126 | She is suddenly smaller, and very female. |
| 24 | 127 | Such cultural securities and societal defenses removed, she becomes acutely aware of her slightness, her softness, her womanness, her vulnerability. |
| 24 | 128 | The matter of nudity has different psychological dimensions, of course, for free women and slaves. |
| 24 | 129 | Nudity for the stripped free woman is often attended with misery and distress, embarrassment and shame. |
| 24 | 130 | She may even try to cover herself until the switch or strap informs her that such is not permitted. |