WGST 1808 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Femininity, Liposuction

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGST 1808
• Professor: Aalya Ahmad

Document Summary

Fabienne darling-wolf from airbrushing to liposuction: the technological. Beauty rituals are a way that girls connect with each other. The women body is a source of social control, discrimination and oppression. Today the body is conceived as the raw material doctors intervene with. Media has created a wide range of identities for women to choose from and can achieve through using beauty products and such. Constant that fat people are lazy and not wanting to help themselves. Susan wendell, the flight from the rejected body . Aspects of bodily life, such as illness, disability, weakness or dying. Bodily appearance, the ways society expects women to look. Bodily experience is any suffering the body has gone through such as fear, being ignored or despised. Feminists criticize the idealization and objectification of women"s bodies, recognizing them as sources exploitation and alienation. People should stop trying to control bodies by stopping what they naturally do, they should live in respectful harmony with them.