WOMENST 1A03 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Prescription Drug, Sexual Objectification, Susan Bordo

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: WOMENST 1A03
• Professor: Melinda Gough

Document Summary

Quiz 1 feedback: according to susan bordo, our culture"s insistence on equating male sexuality with performance rather than pleasure ultimately benefits neither women nor men. False --- see in particular bordo p. 167: western beauty ideals limit women by manipulating time, according to mernissi, enforcing the idea that to be beautiful, a woman must be childish and brainless. True --- see in particular mernissi p. 149: outlining significant increases from the 1970s to the 1990s in the discrepancy between the average. American woman"s weight and the average weight of models, beauty queens, and playboy playmates, Mernissi argues that western ideals of female beauty -- and the practices of dieting they inculculate -- help to paralyze women"s intellectual capacities and destabilize them emotionally. 149-50: women consumers, even more than women in creative positions within advertising firms, have the power to bring about a shift in how women are depicted by the advertising industry, according to joy.