FSN 223 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Hegemonic Masculinity, Size Zero, Wodaabe
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How do we fashion the social body: gender, femininity, masculinity. 5 features of the social body: our bodies are not natural, our bodies are created through fashion, fashion transforms our flesh fashion transforms flesh into something recognizable and meaningful to a culture - joanne entwistle. Joanne entwistle: different spaces, different rules. The street, the office, the mall operate with different rules that determine how we present ourselves: do not follow the rules we face scorn c. i. Bodies that do not conform and go without the appropriate clothes risk exclusion or ridicule: women arrested for improper swimwear, do not follow rules we face shame e. i. Shame of failing to meet the standards required of the moral order of the social space joanne entwistle: we follow rules we have cultural capital f. i. Social assets (not financial) that allows a person to achieve social higher status (ex: education, style or speech or dress: our social body goes beyond fashion a.
