Women's Studies 2161A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Living Dolls, Sexualization, Reality Television

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 2161A/B
• Professor: Nichole Edwards

Document Summary

Buzzwords: raunch culture, striptease culture, pornified culture, mainstreaming of sex . A preoccupation with sexual values, practices and changing norms. The proliferation of sexual texts in pop culture. The emergence of new forms of sexual experience. Shift from relational to recreational model of sexual behaviour. Our fondness for scandals, controversies and panics around sex. Exaggerated femininity ( living dolls ) seen as aspirational. Female perfection more and more defined by sexual allure. Ordinary girls" primary passport to success glamour modelling. Sexualized culture celebrated as a sign of female empowerment. Emphasis on choice is (once again!) key. Making something sexual that isn"t necessarily sexual. There"s an eerie link between girls and dolls. Girls can see dolls as aspirational that they can want to achieve. Companies like bratz dolls can blur the lines between life and the doll with shows and products.