SOCL 1260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Plastic Surgery, Urban Outfitters, Mickey Rourke

• School: Northeastern University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCL 1260
• Professor: Zippel Katrina

Document Summary

Attitudes about the body vary across cultures and time. Sexual standards of beauty often vary depending on the status of women. View women different because of their motherhood, biological ability to reproduce. The beauty myth: naomi wolf: an unrealistic cultural idea of feminine beauty. Intended effect: to make women/men feel insecure and deeply uncomfortable a(cid:271)out their (cid:271)odies (cid:894)(cid:271)ased o(cid:374) less tha(cid:374) (cid:1005)(cid:1004)% of (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)"s a(cid:272)tual (cid:271)odies(cid:895) Traps women as consumers in a cycle of diets, beauty aids, cosmetics, (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)"s/(cid:373)e(cid:374)"s (cid:373)agazi(cid:374)es. Men create the standards of beauty: men also increasingly concerned with body image. Muscle dysmorphia: the belief that one is too small and not muscular enough: 43% of men not happy with their bodies, steroids rise 4x between 1997-2002, violence, men also suffering from eating disorders. Emphasis on thinness: example lawsuit against karl lagerfeld: lagerfeld: nobody wants to see curvy women on the runway, french activist group-belle, ronde, se(cid:454)(cid:455) et je (cid:373)"assu(cid:373)e.