GWST 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7, 10: The Beauty Myth, Naomi Wolf, Susan Bordo

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Gender & Women's Studies
• Course: GWST 1010
• Professor: Jacqueline Warwick

Document Summary

Tiaras ) girls being sexual and pretty, little boy halloween batman and. Spiderman (superhero) costumes have muscles and abs built-in: unrealistic expectations advertising places on women to adhere to. Chapter 10: susan bordo the body and reproduction of femininity . Pursuing the ideal body is a way of preoccupying women"s time, maintaining hierarchies of power and dominance keeping social order in place; women participation in this makes it even more mandatory for other women. Shifts in cultural understanding of anorexia, other disorders associated primarily with women. Racism in standards of beauty: exclude particular religious groups. Chapter 7: pomerants et al sk8ter girls . Example of particular group shows that teenage girls are doing feminism in unexpected ways. Girl studies: refuting assumption that girls are not important. Park gang girls: performing asexual identity to gain respect. Hostility towards bun girls" more conventional feminine display: at the skate park to get guys and male attention.