1991, Gayle Greene, Changing the Story: Feminist Fiction and the TraditionAtwood's Edible Woman offers a brilliant analysis of woman as consumable in consumer capitalism: when Marian turns out in a tarty hairdo and red dress...
2004, Thomas A Reppetto, American Mafia: A History of Its Rise to PowerThe vice trust, with equal ingenuity, sent prostitutes dressed in their tartiest outfits into respectable neighborhoods to inquire about apartments for rent.
