Women's Studies 2162A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: The Body Beautiful, Medicalization, Intersubjectivity

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 2162A/B
• Professor: Andrea Allen

Document Summary

Women are the proper object of male gaze while disabled people are the object of stares. Madge is older, scarred, and white: contrast: madge has white privilege but is still outside of the societal norms because of her disability and lack of femininity . Ngozi whom is mixed race is marked black in a white world and her beauty is appropriated and exotified. Are there scenes you find shocking, uncomfortable, disturbing: last scene intimate moment between mother and daughter. Our gaze is invited but then the light is turned off proving it is a moment between mother and daughter and not for the viewers consumption. Closing thoughts: empathy: - you can feel for the victim, but often people let themselves become surrogate victims. Othering becomes a problem, and saming becomes a problem. Saming collapses personal differences and experiences: intersubjectivity: subjects meetings subjects. Matuschka beauty out of damage cover of the new york times magazine.