CRM 2307 Lecture : CRM2307- Beauty.docx

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 2307
• Professor: Christine Bruckert

Document Summary

The idea that women"s appearance is important: gender scripts that happen in beauty advertisements and magazines. Even as someone as high powered as hilary clinton is still criticized for her appearance. Acts as a context for violence against women and violence against the self, interpersonal violence, and economic violence itself: women do not experience it equally, reproduced by women against women (not just men oppressing women) In our society now, the idea that the ideal woman is very slim. Women who were larger could survive the famine, and will have lots of children. In nigeria, you have farms where you fatten up before you marry a wealthy man (no different then women who are starving themselves to be thin: you also have to be young, have flawless skin, and be white. What"s the effect of this: society of excessive dieting to the point of anorexia.