SOC275H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: The Beauty Myth, Naomi Wolf, Maria Sharapova
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Can be more gendered than this most individual, private organism. We dress, pose, style, tatoo, pierce, shape our bodies with a wide range of cultural signs and symbols. Our bodies become social texts that we construct to be read" by others. Our bodies are then neither private property nor simple biological eniies. They are shaped, made meaningful, and examined by our relaions with the gendered society. In our culture, disability is oten ignored or rendered invisible, seen only when the speciic topic of disability is addressed. Ablism: refers to the acive discriminaion against disabled people and aitudes that diminish disabled people"s competence, focusing on disability as their deining characterisic. Adults with disabiliies face signiicant barriers to employment, paricularly discriminaion, lack of accommodaion, and underesimaion of their abiliies. Aboriginals, or from racialized groups, the barriers can be even greater. 55% of adults with disabiliies are female, and these women have an even higher rate of poverty than men.
