Women's Studies 2162A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Skin Whitening, Frantz Fanon, Symbolic Capital

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 2162A/B
• Professor: Andrea Allen

Document Summary

Discourses on skin-bleaching and ethnic surgery: restore the natural beauty of the skin (if lost, reveal the natural beauty of the skin (if it is hidden, create natural beauty (if the consumer never had it to begin with) Series of utterances or statements connected through their institutional context. The form of language used and its meaning/significance. Discourse contributes to consumer culture by enhancing or promoting particular commodities. The body as a material, cultural, and political site. Produced through race, class, gender, sexuality, ability. It is treated to reflect statements of personal taste and either reflects/challenges social expectations. The instability and flexibility in race depends on what the body does. The meanings behind the categories of race and social structure and how they embody / relate to them. The intentional alteration of one"s natural skin color to one relatively, if not substantially, lighter colour through the use of chemical agents.