FEM 2110 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-4: Commodity Fetishism, Plastic Surgery, Social Code

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: FEM 2110
• Professor: Lori Stinson

Document Summary

Ziesler explains in her article that pop culture privileges our bodies because every day we are able to modify our bodies to how we seem fit. It is also a privilege because cosmetic surgery is now an equal-opportunity proposition, complete with tv commercials and low-cost financing plans hawked on the web (ziesler, 1998). However, it orders our bodies because we"ve grown accustomed to the concept of cosmetic surgery and unsurprised by its presence in our daily lives. It"s talked about on daytime talk shows, free weeklies and ads on public transportation and in entertainment magazines. The larger theoretical framework is that by submitting to the knife, women capitulate to a pernicious social code that ranks female worth by a woman"s adherence to the beauty idea (ziesler, 2019). Therefore pop culture orders us by rewarding those who choose to maintain beauty standards. Popular culture also orders our bodies in terms of hierarchy.