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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Battered Woman. Store windows also reflect the kinky trend. In Cambridge, the Camel's Hump boutique displayed a dead woman, blood running from her mouth, tumbling out of a garbage can. Men's shoes ("We'd Kill For These") were placed on her head and neck. Last fall, a Bon wit Teller window in Boston featured a woman dragging a female body wrapped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: Really Socking It to Women | 2/7/1977 | See Source »

Circe Miller, a Somerville resident who organized protests against the Camel's Hump display last fall, said yesterday that she had not heard about the new display, but said, "It's really pretty damn shocking that they're doing it again," Miller said, adding, "I guess they're seeing how far they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clothing Store's Gimmick Arouses Community Anger | 1/26/1977 | See Source »

...second time in four months, a window display at the Camel's Hump, a Harvard Square clothing store, has aroused community anger at what one resident yesterday called "the use of sexual violence to sell clothes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clothing Store's Gimmick Arouses Community Anger | 1/26/1977 | See Source »

...October, the Camel's Hump, on Boylston St. displayed a mannikin dressed as a battered corpse in its window, but removed the display when feminist organizers in Cambridge protested the advertising gimmick...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clothing Store's Gimmick Arouses Community Anger | 1/26/1977 | See Source »

Store personnel yesterday declined comment. But in a statement released yesterday, P.J. Casey, president of the Camel's Hump, said the display is no different from displays used in Europe and New York...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clothing Store's Gimmick Arouses Community Anger | 1/26/1977 | See Source »

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