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  • Ideal Body Size Images
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    Body Image The purpose of this study is to further explore and examine the influences of mass media on male's and female's personal body image satisfaction and the awareness and internalization of societal pressures regarding appearance. For a number years evidence surrounding the insecurities that women have towards their own bodies has been widely published. More recently, it has been suggested that men are falling victim to media and societal pressure, and are developing insecurities traditio...
  • Ideal Woman
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    Ideal Woman In magazines stuffed with models and advertisements, billboards on the highway, and actresses on television, the message of what women should look like is everywhere. Advertising is a powerful force in our culture due to the exposure. The decided presence of these images in effect shapes the image of women today. It is very unfortunate that the media influences American society to the point that it defines the 'ideal woman'. The 'ideal woman' is defined as someone that is thin, young...
  • Attitude Of An Ideal Nude Body
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    How does the Photographers attitude of an ideal nude compare with those before the industrial revolution? , (has the perception of the nude changed since the invention of the camera). Pablo Picasso was born in spain, however he lived most of his life in france. Picasso was a Genius, he was a master of almost any median. He ventured in many styles and with fellow Artist, Georges Braque, created "cubism". I feel that his strongest paintings, (those leaving lasting interest), would be his unusual a...
  • Current Ideal Body Size Of Society
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    In her article "Too 'Close to the Bone': The Historical Context for Women's Obsession with Slenderness", Roberta Seid, a lecturer at the University of Southern California, examines what she calls the historical context, as well as the negative effects, of society's ideal of slenderness. Seid main point in the article is that the current ideal body size of society is much too thin to be healthy. While Seid does have a well founded belief, her use of logical fallacies and a few extreme views may m...
  • Great Body Image Ideals
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    In essence, body image is an attitude toward the body. Body image is a complex psychological phenomenon that is an essential part of overall self-esteem. A person!'s satisfaction and general self-esteem tend to be highly related. The prevalence of the body image ideals among Chinese women is significantly lower than the prevalence among American women. Chinese admire women who have the slim body image that means beauty. And all Chinese women expect to be a slim girl. Chinese women emphasize eati...
  • Ideal Body
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    I feel scientific "objectivity" supports the oppression of women. Western science presents itself, its methods and its findings as the only way of getting at the "truth". (Study Guide) "The vertical relationship between researcher and research objects, in view from above, must be replaced by the view from below". (Ecofeminism) This passage from, Ecofeminism represents to me the relationship between researcher and the researched, as well as societies perceived relationship between man and women. ...
  • Commercialized Fit Body
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    ARE FIT BODIES IN WOMEN MORE FEMININE? The purpose of this essay is to discover whether fit bodies in women are more feminine. In order to properly address this question it is imperative to define what fit' and feminine' represent in this context. If the definitions of fit' and feminine' are similar then it is quite possible that a fit' body is more feminine'. In Helen Lenskyj's Women, Sport, and Sexuality, she uses words such as slim, trim, and fashionable to describe what it is to be feminine'...
  • Imagery Of Sexed Bodies
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    MARKETING AND THE BODY We all speak and act from our bodies, but what we actually consider as "our' or other people's body is very much open to debate. The images shift and change threw the times and culture changes, and so does the perception of the "ideal' or "politically correct' body. In the world we live in, the body has become a commodity, a fetish. The appropriate or "politically correct' image of the body results in its veneration as an ideal and promotes a whole set of values behind the...

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