‘Discourse about women’s bodies always constructs a narrow physical ideal.’ by Hannah Adshead

‘Discourse about women’s bodies always constructs a narrow physical ideal.’ by Hannah Adshead https://padlet.com/hannah_adshead/discourseaboutwomensbodies Conduct research and make a scrap-book of your findings which will enable you to argue a point of view in answer to the statement. en-us 2016-06-24 12:01:33 UTC 2016-06-24 12:54:35 UTC hello@padlet.com http://media.leeds.ac.uk/files/2012/05/miriam-lowe.pdf hannah_adshead https://padlet.com/hannah_adshead/discourseaboutwomensbodies/wish/115387462 Berger claims that because women are aware that they are being watched and surveyed by men, then women actually survey themselves being surveyed. Women are thus the surveyor and the surveyed. In doing so, she then turns herself into an object (1972: 46-7).]]> 2016-06-24 12:21:08 UTC https://padlet.com/hannah_adshead/discourseaboutwomensbodies/wish/115387462 http://media.leeds.ac.uk/files/2012/05/miriam-lowe.pdf hannah_adshead https://padlet.com/hannah_adshead/discourseaboutwomensbodies/wish/115387568 Wolf believes that the portrayal of the ideal female image is a dissemination of what she calls ‘the beauty myth’ whereby images of female beauty are used as a
political weapon against women’s advancement and therefore as a form of social control. Before the industrial revolution there was no means by which women could
compare themselves to a mass circulated physical ideal, but with the invention of image reproduction technologies at the beginning of the nineteenth century, this changed significantly and women began to be controlled by images of how women should look.]]> 2016-06-24 12:23:40 UTC https://padlet.com/hannah_adshead/discourseaboutwomensbodies/wish/115387568 http://media.leeds.ac.uk/files/2012/05/miriam-lowe.pdf hannah_adshead https://padlet.com/hannah_adshead/discourseaboutwomensbodies/wish/115387678 The media have a tendency to produce an ideal feminine image as “thin, free

from unwanted hair, deodorised, perfumed and clothed…they produce a picture that is

far removed from the reality of everyday lives” (Orbach 1978: 20-21).

]]> 2016-06-24 12:27:01 UTC https://padlet.com/hannah_adshead/discourseaboutwomensbodies/wish/115387678 http://media.leeds.ac.uk/files/2012/05/miriam-lowe.pdf hannah_adshead https://padlet.com/hannah_adshead/discourseaboutwomensbodies/wish/115387768 Advertising has been recognized as one of the main outlets through which we are relentlessly exposed to ideals of bodily perfection. In addition, the diet and fashion industries constantly promote the benefits of looking a certain way and with its distillation into the women’s magazine press, they have often been blamed as the primary cause of eating disorders (Macdonald 1995: 209). This media emphasis on the presentation of the body has according to Orbach, led women to believe that making their image pleasing and attractive, is the core purpose of their existence (1978: 20).]]> 2016-06-24 12:29:32 UTC https://padlet.com/hannah_adshead/discourseaboutwomensbodies/wish/115387768 http://media.leeds.ac.uk/files/2012/05/miriam-lowe.pdf hannah_adshead https://padlet.com/hannah_adshead/discourseaboutwomensbodies/wish/115387867 Cranny-Francis et al thus claims that a discourse of femininity pervades all forms of media telling us what a beautiful woman is, that all girls and women should desire to be beautiful, and providing instruction on how to become beautiful (2003: 198).]]> 2016-06-24 12:31:48 UTC https://padlet.com/hannah_adshead/discourseaboutwomensbodies/wish/115387867 http://media.leeds.ac.uk/files/2012/05/miriam-lowe.pdf hannah_adshead https://padlet.com/hannah_adshead/discourseaboutwomensbodies/wish/115387932 Changes in the ideal body image in the past can also be seen as indicative of changes in media messages. However, it would not be fair to place all responsibility
for such variations on the media as social conditions such as war, famine and fertility can affect what a culture considers acceptable or desirable at a certain period of time (Guendouzi 2004: 1636).]]> 2016-06-24 12:33:24 UTC https://padlet.com/hannah_adshead/discourseaboutwomensbodies/wish/115387932 http://media.leeds.ac.uk/files/2012/05/miriam-lowe.pdf hannah_adshead https://padlet.com/hannah_adshead/discourseaboutwomensbodies/wish/115388195 This sees the idea that ideas about a women's perfect body has been changing since the Victorian period, up until this very day...
Silverstein et al (1986) found evidence of this potted historical analysis of trends in ideal body image. They conducted a study that involved measuring bust, hip,
and waist widths of models appearing in magazines between 1901 and 1981, which confirmed the above transformations in female ideal body image that have occurred throughout the twentieth century.]]> 2016-06-24 12:38:04 UTC https://padlet.com/hannah_adshead/discourseaboutwomensbodies/wish/115388195 http://media.leeds.ac.uk/files/2012/05/miriam-lowe.pdf hannah_adshead https://padlet.com/hannah_adshead/discourseaboutwomensbodies/wish/115388581 Bordo refers to how often women who are thin are depicted as smart, intelligent, and competent; and women who are more curvaceous and have a fuller figure tend to be equated with “wide-eyed, giggly vapidity”]]> 2016-06-24 12:46:55 UTC https://padlet.com/hannah_adshead/discourseaboutwomensbodies/wish/115388581 http://media.leeds.ac.uk/files/2012/05/miriam-lowe.pdf hannah_adshead https://padlet.com/hannah_adshead/discourseaboutwomensbodies/wish/115388731 The media frequently portray women in one of three roles. The first is as a wife, a mother or a housekeeper for men; the second is as a sex object; and the third is as someone trying to appear beautiful for the benefit of men (Orbach 1978: 20 and Hole and Levine 1971: 249).

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