1. Body Image Awareness Seminars
“Reshaping your mind, not your body!”
Aly Bailey, PhD Candidate
BIAS Website:

2. Agenda: Seminar 4 Topic: Individual differences in body image
Take home task: Video discussion
Amy Cuddy
Activity: Media literacy
Presentation: Beauty ideals across history & culture
Activity: Broad concept of beauty
Take home task

3. Amy Cuddy Video How can this be related to body image?
What you say or do can have physiological effects on your body!!
Faking a positive body image until you become it!?

4. Media Literacy Activity
As a group, choose a source of media to evaluate
Answer the following questions:
Target audience and why?
Hidden messages?
What is shown in a positive light?
What is shown in a negative light?
Who and what is not shown at all?

5. Beauty Ideals have Changed
Presentation on examples of how historically the definition of “beauty” has changed
People have attempted to mold to fit a changing ideal
Driven by societal instinct to prefer to be with the “in group”
Purpose: Actively and critically evaluate the changing “ideal”
Prelude

6. Beauty Ideals have Changed
Ideal female form
Late 19th Century

7. Beauty Ideals have Changed
Gibson Girls & Gibson Men
Before the war (1914 – November 11, 1918)
The Gibson Girls Similar figure as previous slide but more defined by a corset
There was also the Gibson man

8. Beauty Ideals have Changed
1920s The Flappers
Bob haircuts
Slender
Lean build
Boyish figure
After the war
Removed corset but dieting became big
Androgynous appearance

9. Beauty Ideals have Changed
As women’s rights improved, men were increasingly pressured to alter their appearance

10. Beauty Ideals have Changed
Curves but in specific areas
1940s & 1950s
Curvy Pin- Up Girls
Now, though, the ideal figure must have a round, high bosom, a slim but not wasp-like waist, and gently rounded hips
World war 2:
Healthier and easier to attain
Marilyn Monroe example of someone who fluctuated in weight but still considered a sex icon

11. Beauty Ideals have Changed
1940s & 1950s
Women encouraged to gain weight

12. Beauty Ideals have Changed
Twiggy
slender and long-legged. High-fashion model Twiggy Lawson became famous for her small frame and “androgynous” look (i.e., a woman with boyish figure)— similar but more extreme to the flapper ideal. 
Twiggy had a BMI of 15

13. Beauty Ideals have Changed
Thin is still in
1980s
Fitness craze
Thin and fit
Farrah Fawcett

14. Beauty Ideals have Changed
Heroin Chic Waif
Kate Moss
“Thinspiration”
Heroin-Chic = pale skin, angular bone structure and extremely thin limbs were in fashion. 
Kate Moss had a BMI of 16

15. Beauty Ideals have Changed
Early 2000s - present
Women: tall, thin and leggy models with big breasts, flowing hair and toned bodies, emphasis in chest in butt
Men: Tall, V-shape large muscle mass in chest, arms, and back, 6-pack craze, hairless on body but not on head

16. Beauty Ideals have Changed
Western male hair over the years

17. Beauty Ideals have Changed
G.I. Joe 1964-present
Superman 1930’s-present
Increasingly larger, more v-shaped, and toned/defined muscle

18. Ideals in other Cultures
Up to 1940 China
Foot binding

19. Ideals in other Cultures
Ancient tradition from Burma
Neck rings
Still present in Thailand today
Some Burma women still wear neck rings in Thailand because it attracts tourists
People of Burma fled to Thailand because of attacks on minority tribes
-longer the neck the more beautiful; however the rings compress the collarbone causing tension on the ribcage

20. Take Away Message Ideals have always and will always change
“Beauty” as defined by society is used as means of social control
Political agenda (foot binding, corset)
Marketing and profit $$
Why give into the pressures?

21. Broad Concept of Beauty
Activity
Share and discuss:
List all the ways someone can be different or unique
List inner and outer attributes
Who decides what is beautiful?

22. Write down 5 things that make you unique
Take Home Task
Write down 5 things that make you unique

23. Body Image Awareness Seminars
“When you always try to conform to the norm you lose your uniqueness which can be the foundation of your greatness”
-Dale Archer
Dale Archer is a psychiatrist