Editing Pin-up model (section)

==Feminism and the pin-up==
[[File:Jackie Martinez pin up.jpg|left|thumb|Pin-up photo of singer Jackie Martinez]]

Maria Buszek the author of ''Pin-up Grrrls,'' said that the pin-up girl "has presented women with models for expressing and finding pleasure in their sexual subjectivity".<ref name=":0" />

According to [[Joanne Meyerowitz]] in "Women, Cheesecake, and Borderline Material," an article in ''Journal of Women's History'', "As sexual images of women multiplied in the popular culture, women participated actively in constructing arguments to endorse as well as protest [against] them."{{sfnp|Meyerowitz|1996|p=9}}

As early as 1869, women have been supporters and opponents of the pin-up. Female supporters of early pin-up content considered these to be a "positive post-Victorian rejection of bodily shame and a healthy respect for female beauty."{{sfnp|Meyerowitz|1996|p=10}}

Additionally, pin-up allows for women to change their everyday culture. The models "succeed in the feminist aim of changing the rigid, patriarchal terms."<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Pin-Up Grrrls: Feminism, Sexuality, Popular Culture|last=Buszek|first=Maria Elena|publisher=Duke University Press|year=2007}}</ref>

It has been argued by some critics that in the early 20th century that these drawings of women helped define certain body images—such as being clean, healthy, and wholesome—and were enjoyed by both men and women, and that as time progressed, these images changed from respectable to illicit.{{sfnp|Ross|1989|p=61}}

Conversely, female protesters argued that these images were corrupting societal morality and saw these public sexual displays of women as lowering the standards of womanhood, destroying their dignity, reducing them to mere objects to pleasure men and therefore harmful to both women and young adolescents.{{sfnp|Meyerowitz|1996|p=10}}

Pin-up modeling has been described as a [[subculture]] that is invested in promoting positive body images and a love for one's sexuality, "pin-up would also find ways to... encourage the erotic self-awareness and self expression of real women".<ref name=":0" />