WGST 1808 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: The Beauty Myth, Candid Photography, Wgst

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGST 1808
• Professor: Katherine Bausch

Document Summary

Carla rice: the body has become both a site of constraint and possibility for girls and women living in the west. The beauty myth has created equality increases, pressure to conform increases push back, the role of the media. Men and women bodies as ideal, not intended to be reality. Rise of public spaces designed for gazing (19th century) Shopping for pleasure, eating in public, red carpets - candid photography. Public world of looking (television, movies, magazines) = added pressure on physical appearance. Changes in courtship routines = added pressure on bodily standards. Defa or blind women need to be cared for. Readings: carla rice, extracting beauty: exploring women"s body projects and problems in the 21st. 390-410: kathleen lebesco, fat and fabulous: resisting constructions of female body. 411-13: paula pinto, women, disability, and the right to health (text pp.