Glamour’s root meaning is the power of the bewitching auto-objectified

Evidence

Remember that the original sense of glamour — bewitchment — alludes to the power of the auto-objectified over the subject. “If God is masculine, idols are always feminine”, Baudrillard writes in Seduction, and Siouxsie differed from previous pop icons in that she was neither a male artist “feminised” into iconhood by fan adoration, nor a female marionette manipulated by male svengalis, nor a female heroically struggling to assert a marginalised subjectivity. On the contrary, Siouxsie’s perversity was to make an art of her own objectification. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1037

Categorization

• DEFINE: Etymology of glamour — bewitchment — grounds a whole theory of female object-power.
• XREF: Feeds the reader’s glamour-vs-pornography thread in ch10. — connects to: Feminine eroticism involves becoming an object to snare another — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 845

Broader Connections

• Feminine eroticism involves becoming an object to snare another #expands (0.82) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 845