rooms
emptied
behind
me

by lyn lifshin

contents:

One: Inside the Circle, the Quote: "The Symbol for Women is the Representation of a Hand Mirror

Two: In the Room of Mirrors

Three: The Erotic Mirror from the Governor's Motor Inn

Four: "Every Girl of Fifteen Has Put the Same Question to Her Mirror, am I Beautiful?

Five: The Cracked Mirror

Six: In the Three Way Mirror

Seven: In the Mirror the Woman Standing on a Towel Sees her Bulges as Curves, her Gray Hair a Rose Amber

Eight: In the Doll House

Nine: Women are Confronted Daily by Multitudes of Beauty Images in Magazines, Movies, on Television--the Sheer Quantity of These Images has Increased Dramatically Over the Last Twenty Years

Ten: Vanity Thy Name is Woman

Eleven: The Woman with Braids in Front of a Tilting Mirror

Twelve: In the 1920's the Mirror Became an Essential Prop in Advertisements, Especially to Sell Cosmetics to Masses of Women Who Previously Shunned Paint

Thirteen: Mirrors in the Ads Circa 1940, 1950

Fourteen: Women are Controlled Daily by Multitudes of Beauty Images

Fifteen: Woman in Front of a High Case of Mirrors, Bureau Mirrors, Hall Mirrors, Mirrors in Frames of Wood, Gold, Tin, Silver

Sixteen: Under the Circle of Mirrors

Seventeen: In One Hall Mirror

Eighteen: In Front of the Mirror with a Blue Vase

Nineteen: In a Drawer of Compacts

Twenty: The Daughter I Don't Have

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