1. Person 1
Before introducing myself/the project, pass out evaluation sheets and tell audience to anonymously evaluate me on the various categories.

2. Person 2
Just as before, show a picture of this person and ask audience to fill out evaluation sheet without any introduction or explanation.

3. Person 3
Just as before, show a picture of this person and ask audience to fill out evaluation sheet without any introduction or explanation.

4. Body-Policing: Any attempt made to make a person feel as if their body/sexuality is not their own to control.
“This can include anything from criticism and gossip to street harassment and reinforced expectations projected onto certain groups.”

5. The overwhelming presence of body-policing in our culture places women under constant evaluation. This leads to generalizations about other aspects of their personalities.

6. Person 2: Angelina Jolie
Celebrated actress and humanitarian
Special Envoy to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Has built schools and created wildlife reserves in Cambodia, Kenya, and Afghanistan
Advocates against sexual violence in military conflict zones
Talk about her accomplishments and say that commentary on her appearance often undermines her humanitarian efforts.

7. Person 3: Malala Yousafzai
Began anonymously blogging for BBC about life under Taliban rule at age 11
Advocate for women’s education
Continued activism even after assassination attempt
Youngest person ever to be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize
Talk about her accomplishments and how the stigma that Muslim women and women who wear the hijab are oppressed limit their perceived potential.

8. Some Bodies/Somebody’s: Body-Policing’s Impact on the Roles of Women
Maddie Hardy Howard High School
Talk about myself here!!

9. Overview Hypersexualization/Objectification Hyper-Purification
Asymmetries in Power between Genders
Power and Oppression
Internalized Misogyny
Rape Culture
Body-Policing’s Relationships
Changing Culture
Somebody’s/Some Bodies

10. A Culture of Body-Policing for Women
58% of movies include comments on women’s and girls’ appearances compared to the 24% with comments on men’s and boys’ appearances

11. Hypersexualization and Objectification
Sexuality applied to women without their consent
The male gaze
Portrays women as submissive and limited
Generates an “idealized body” for women to live up to.
Talk about how in this commercial, the women are not doing anything inherently sexual, but they’re being placed in a sexual

12. Hyper-Purification: Application of Moralizing Standards
Slut-shaming: A form of body-policing that shames women for expressing their sexuality through dress or behavior
In response to sexualization, strict moralizing standards are applied
Abstinence-only education and school dress codes
Explain that this is the flip side of body-policing.

13. Raise your hand if you’ve ever…
Called someone or been called fat or ugly
Called someone or been called a slut
Criticized a woman’s clothing or make-up choices
Commented on a woman’s presence or lack of body hair
Been reprimanded for breaking a school dress code.
If you raised your hand for any of these, you’ve experienced this culture of body-policing.
I kind of want to add more to this.

14. Purpose
To explore body-policing’s relationship with asymmetries in power between genders, internalized misogyny, and rape culture.
There’s no doubt that body-policing exists, the purpose of this project is to investigate how it influences other underlying aspects of gender interactions

15. Asymmetries in Power Between Genders
Body-policing limits to stereotypes
Subject/Object Dichotomy
This mentality enables sexual assault and intimate partner violence towards women as well as other marginalized groups
Talk about how ad represents subject object dichotomy

16. Power and Oppression

17. Internalized Misogyny
People internalize and reflect misogynistic ideals that may oppress them.
Self-Objectification Theory: Living in an objectifying environment causes people to begin objectifying themselves and others
Mean Girls (2004)

18. Rape Culture
“Women should avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimized”—Officer Sanguinetti
Victim-blaming: When victims of sexual assault are held responsible for provoking their attacks

19. Rape Culture
“They said she dressed older than her age, wearing makeup and fashions more appropriate to a woman in her 20s. She would hang out with teenage boys at a playground, some said.” – New York Times article, “Vicious Assault Shakes Texas Town”
A rape culture sympathizes with rapists and punishes victims.
Body-policing’s role: Women are shamed for their sexual choices; the myth is perpetuated that female sexuality provokes male violence.

20. Body-Policing’s Relationships
Asymmetries in Power
Subject/Object Dichotomy
Privileged groups possess power over oppressed groups
Objectification, Stereotyping
Body-Policing
Internalized Misogyny
Self-Objectification
Women shaming women
Unrealistic expectations, Evaluation
Rape Culture
Victim-blaming
Sympathy for rapists
Slut-shaming

21. Slut Walk, protest against slut-shaming and rape victim stigma
Changing Culture
Awareness
Internalized misogyny causes people to see body-policing as normal– this perspective must be altered to recognize problematic behavior.
Slut Walk, protest against slut-shaming and rape victim stigma

22. Some Bodies/Somebody’s
Vanita Leatherwood, HopeWorks
Shawna Potter & Melanie Keller, Hollaback! Baltimore
Anna Munsey-Kano, blogger queerguesscode
Hannah Brancato, FORCE
Rebecca Adelman, UMBC

23. Some Bodies/Somebody’s

24. After Viewing: Comments/questions?
Was there anything that surprised you?
Has this presentation made you more aware of body-policing than you were before?

25. Recap Hypersexualization/hyper-purification
Asymmetries in power between genders
Internalized Misogyny
Rape Culture
Perpetuated by both men and women
Change through awareness and change in culture

26. Image Sources