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Dell Williams (née Zetlin; August 5, 1922 – March 11, 2015) was an American businesswoman.〔 In 1945, she enlisted in the Women’s Army Corps. Decades later, she founded the first feminist sex toy business in the United States, Eve's Garden, in New York City in 1974.〔〔 Eve's Garden was the first woman-owned and woman-operated sex toy business in America.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.evesgarden.com )〕 As Williams put it, "Eve represented all women and the Garden was symbolic of women taking responsibility for their 'own' sexuality."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Dell Williams profile )〕 She was inspired to found the business after she took a “Body/Sex Workshop” by Betty Dodson in New York and afterwards went to buy a Hitachi Magic Wand for use as a vibrator, but found that the salesboy at Macy's asked her nosy questions about it.〔 Williams was an actress for a time, and appeared in productions of ''The Vagina Monologues''.〔 Her most notable role may have been in a 1962 film, ''The Cliff Dwellers'', a film which was nominated for an Academy Award. In addition to this, she was a singer, artists’ model, and writer during the 1930s and 1940s, and was later one of the first successful female advertising executives in New York City.〔 ==Legacy== In 2005, her memoir, ''Revolution in the Garden'', was published.〔 Some of her papers are held as the Dell Williams Papers in the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections at the Cornell University Library.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Guide to the Dell Williams Papers,1922-2008 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dell Williams」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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