Body Image & Beauty Ideals

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Body Image & Beauty Ideals Desires & Disorders The body as a social canvas

The Beauty Ideal Beauty is socially constructed Changes over time and between cultures Reflects social power and relations of inequality and privilege Corporate interests & mass media define beauty Enforced through disciplinary practices Complex and irregularly enforced based on position in society

Disciplinary Beauty Practices The taken-for-granted routine behaviors surrounding how we maintain or improve our appearance Exist throughout Western history and most cultures worldwide These everyday practices, routines and rules of appearances reflect social power

Beauty—why do we do it? Being normal = conforming to norms Being accepted is less stressful Serious, not strident Women’s power comes from appearance Survive in sexist culture Lesbian baiting Health Conflation of health with beauty Bonding Rituals

Criticisms Of Beauty Practices Double standard of beauty Imposes considerable cost in time and money Standards are established by multi-national corporations and the media Fashion and beauty negatively impact women’s health Combined effects of standards lead women to low self-esteem

The Social Construction of Beautiful Bodies How are bodies socially constructed? For what purpose? How are eating disorders socially constructed?

The Social Construction of Beautiful Bodies Body image—how we perceive our physical appearance, as well as how we think others perceive us. Images formed through: Parental and peer messages Socialization Mass-media and cultural messages Cult of Perfection

Ideals through History Throughout history, emphasis has focused on different parts of the body with an increased emphasis on thinness in the late 20th century In 1940s the cultural ideal figure for women became significantly thinner as compared to the actual female figure

Eating Disorders Anorexia Bulimia Compulsive EDNOS Food jags & phobias How healthy is our image of health? What is healthy?

Corporeal Schizophrenia Food as comfort in an uncomfortable world Food as control in a chaotic world Food as a commodity in a materialistic world Thin as an ideal Obesity as a reality

Theories of Eating Disorders Bio-medical model Silver bullet cures Psycho-social model Culture of thinness Social constructionist model The personal is political

Body Awareness vs. Body Image Self Regard over Objectification

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