WOMS201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Hair, Panties, Eating Disorder
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School: bodies are produced through culture, and gender shapes these productions, while men and women both have body ideals they have different meanings / significance and costs for both. / white teeth, sexy (but not sexualized: body ethics - values and beliefs regarding care and presentation (how we act) Socially constructed: our bodies are mediated through communities and culture, communities (our culture, body ethics and aesthetics shaped by families, race / ethnicity, class, media (very narrow definition of beauty, portrayals of beauty. Invisibility of ethnicity and race: objectification -, example: when men talk about women"s bodies (women"s bodies are there for men"s pleasure); observe and consume, tool of dehumanization. Beauty standards are enforced in complex ways: we think we make beauty choices for ourselves. The "beauty myth: as women grow more powerful standards become more limiting; expectations about size of women has actually decreased -- literally asking women to take up less space.