Powerful celebrity Angelina Jolie who just turn 34 last June 4 graces Harper’s Bazaar July 2009 issue as feminist writer Naomi Wolf tells and examines “Why Women Want Angelina Jolie’s Life”.
Checkout the highlights:
Jolie's Power: "She is conventionally beautiful: Bosomy and wasp-waisted, with that curtain of hair and those crazy pillowy lips, she is an obvious male sex fantasty. But more suggestively, polls show that her appeal and magnetism play at least as powerfully in the fantasy life of females"
Jolie as Women fantasy: "Polls also show that if women — not just lesbian and bisexual women but straight women — had to choose a female lover, they would want to sleep with Angelina Jolie. In other words, women both identify with her and desire her."
Jolie as a Lover: "She took for her own pleasure the male seen as the most desired of the tribe, Brad Pitt, who is always ranked at the top of indexes of male beauty and virility."
Jolie on her image that she delivers: "Her persona hits an unprecedented level of global resonance — and makes women want to be with her and be her at the same time — because she has created a life narrative that is not just personal. Rather, it is archetypal. And the archetype is one that really, for the first time in modern culture, brings together almost every aspect of female empowerment and liberation."
Jolie as a mom: "Jolie revealed a new, and fairly radical, vision of single motherhood that made the relationship seem tender, glamorous, and complete.
For the full article, visit Harper’s Bazaar
[photos: Harper's Bazaar]
Checkout the highlights:
Jolie's Power: "She is conventionally beautiful: Bosomy and wasp-waisted, with that curtain of hair and those crazy pillowy lips, she is an obvious male sex fantasty. But more suggestively, polls show that her appeal and magnetism play at least as powerfully in the fantasy life of females"
Jolie as Women fantasy: "Polls also show that if women — not just lesbian and bisexual women but straight women — had to choose a female lover, they would want to sleep with Angelina Jolie. In other words, women both identify with her and desire her."
Jolie as a Lover: "She took for her own pleasure the male seen as the most desired of the tribe, Brad Pitt, who is always ranked at the top of indexes of male beauty and virility."
Jolie on her image that she delivers: "Her persona hits an unprecedented level of global resonance — and makes women want to be with her and be her at the same time — because she has created a life narrative that is not just personal. Rather, it is archetypal. And the archetype is one that really, for the first time in modern culture, brings together almost every aspect of female empowerment and liberation."
Jolie as a mom: "Jolie revealed a new, and fairly radical, vision of single motherhood that made the relationship seem tender, glamorous, and complete.
For the full article, visit Harper’s Bazaar
[photos: Harper's Bazaar]
