...unrealistic standards of feminine beauty surfacing popular media nationwide, the self image of most teenage girls in society today has never been worse. By cause of unrealistic standards of feminine beauty surfacing popular media nationwide, the self image of most teenage girls in society today has never been worse. By cause of unrealistic standards of feminine beauty surfacing popular media nationwide, the self image of most teenage girls in society today has never been worse. By cause of unrealistic standards of feminine beauty surfacing popular media nationwide, the self image of most teenage girls in society today has never been worse. By cause of unrealistic standards of feminine beauty surfacing popular media nationwide,...
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...The Heterosexual Feminine Beauty: Construction, Resistance, and Identity The concept of feminine beauty is dynamic and multi-dimensional. The United States’ mainstream, however, has created an ideal. Currently, long straight hair, petite yet well endowed with curves, among other traits, define the idealized relatively fictitious heterosexual feminine image. Bodies are malleable. Throughout this paper, malleability will be defined as the ability to sculpt the human body like an object. The question is: who controls the sculptor? Often the media, societal pressures, and capitalist incentives heavily influence, if not dictate heterosexual feminine beauty, but there are exceptions. Since the body can be crafted through cosmetics, surgery, and exercise, the pursuit of a better or perfect body is seemingly possible. In reality, achieving the perfect body is a stretch because the target ideal continues to evolve become less humanly possible. These conforming pressures separate body from identity. They impose a beauty image that limits one’s agency and self-worth, but at the same time present an opportunity for redefining...
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...Disney’s iconic movies play an integral role in shaping countless childhoods, and their princess movies, spanning from 1934’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to Moana in 2016, are widely popular, particularly among young American girls. Consequently, the sexist messages of Disney princess movies both pre and post the 1960s Women's Liberation Movement are extremely present in today’s society. Before the Women's Liberation Movement, films such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty portrayed messages that reflected women’s confined role in society during the mid-1900s. These princesses, while playing significant speaking roles, were not only dependent on men but the epitome of their life was marriage but the focus...
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...Tying these existing needs for affiliation (belongingness) and esteem to men’s cosmetics will create demand for the brand. Subtleness and convenience are some of the product attributes that researchers found to be important to male consumers in buying and experiment with cosmetics. Complete Product Line include convenient combo of a natural smelling three-step skin care (facial soap, cleanser & moisturizer); Shaving products, deodorants, skin clearing & treatment products designed to hide dark circle, age spots, razor burn and reduce appearance of fine lines and wrinkles (example: concealer, eye treatment formula, skin toner) . Communication Strategy (Media, Advertisement and Packaging) Cosmetics are high-involvement products. Revlon men’s cosmetics ads should be placed in media outlets that are relevant to men. Specialized media such as Maxim, National Geographic, and Men Health tend to be...
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...Since its beginnings, the media has been the driving force behind the public’s beliefs and perceptions about the idea of beauty. It is constantly conveying falsified and misleading information. The media manipulates information in order to convey certain messages to the public. It is currently one of the most influential sources of information. The media establishes the societal norms: how people should act, dress and look. It perpetuates the idea perfection in every aspect of life, especially physical appearance. Increased exposure to the unrealistic beauty ideals of the media has detrimental psychological effects, including negative and distorted body image, low self-esteem and even eating disorders. The media intensifies distorted body images,...
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...organized into the categories of children, men, women, and the culture of Bugistribe, Indonesia.The understanding of gender roles is evident in children, even at the age of three years old. Studies show that parent’s set unclear norms regarding gender roles, which confuses kids. Moreover, there is historical background on social construction and women. The importance of the role of beauty in the female gender role showing how young women are being more sexualized. Also, the role of eating disorders in men and women’s genders is addressed. Men’s struggle with masculinity in present society as well as fear of feminism is talked about. Finally, the Bugis tribe, located in South Sulawesi, Indonesia is studied. Their five separate genders show a fascinating look at social construction. Gender And Its Social Unstoppable Construction Gender is an extremely captivating concept. The social construction of gender is an extensive and complicated subject. Looking at the views children have of gender roles shows social construction. Studying how women’s gender roles are socially constructed with feminine behavior is very interesting. Also is fascinating how men attempt to balance and uphold masculinity. Finally, gender in other cultures, specifically the Bugis tribe of Indonesia, have extremely different takes on gender, which is curious to see. Gender is an intriguing subject that not enough people are educated on, however, this paper will dive into the topic of gender and social...
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...dominance over male because it makes women subordinate to men. This power is exerted in forms of masculinity. Masculine men are emotionless, strong, aggressive, competitive, and independent. They are able to show dominance over women because subordinate women contrast from these characteristics. In modern day however, male dominance is becoming less and less prevalent in society. Media including television shows, movies, and magazines, has begun to create a more womanlike, emotional masculinity. It is less emasculating than it used to be to act in stereotypically feminine ways. Women are objectifying men almost as much as men are objectify women. Having traits that are not stereotypically masculine has become an acceptable life for a man, creating uniformity between the two genders. The feminization of men in media is creating equality amongst men and women because it is empowering women to eradicate the traditional patriarchal structure. Putting men on display is opening the opportunity for women to judge and objectify men. As Bordo says in her article “Beauty (Re)discovers the Male Body,” “It is feminine to be on display” (135). Being put on display takes away a person’s freedom. It takes away the ability to be oneself, and welcomes self-consciousness, inferiority, and pain; all are very unmanly traits. In every issue of “Cosmopolitan,” the girls guide to everything, a Stud Meter ranks male celebrities from hot to not. On this month’s Stud Meter, Liam Hemsworth takes the top spot...
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...and contain material especially prepared for them. Women’s and men’s magazine also fall under the category of specialized magazines and are meant for the respective gender, containing information, news, tips, opinions as well as other material of their interest. Discussion In order to complete this assignment, I have decided to semantically analyze the content of Ladies’ Home Journal and the following paragraphs would be highlighting and focusing on the content, way of writing as well as the advertisements used in the magazine: Topics of the magazine After going through the latest issue of Ladies’ Home Journal and reading all the material available, I have come to the conclusions that the magazine contains highly feminine touch and can easily be characterized as a women’s magazine. This one is a special interest magazine, dealing with the issues and the...
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...distribution, and marketing company focusing on providing branded products with superior quality and value. It provided over 300 brands reaching consumers in about 140 countries. P&G is focusing on provided fashion, high quality products for consumers. In order to satisfy consumers, P&G segment its consumers into different group, such as age, gender, ethnicity, material status, and low income consumers. With the segmentation, P&G could analyze what consumers’ demand. Human’s living standard is improved rapidly. People is getting to pay more attention on cleaning products to keep their bodies clean and looking good. Most of the people thought that beauty/feminine care products were just for females, but actually the number of men spending time in front of the mirror, grooming themselves had increased. With the growing trend for men to use beauty products, P&G started manufacturing more products for them and try to satisfy their needs. For example, they designed the products so that they would attract male consumers, by using dark colors for the packaging so that it looked more masculine. P&G is always try to satisfy needs of consumers. With a company which had more than 100 years history, P&G was strong in brand quality reputation, price competition, scales of economic, variety of products, and brand recognition but it still have some strong competitors such as Unilever, Colgate-Palmolive, Playtex Products, Avon, and Estee Lauder. The distribution and segmentation are quite similar...
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...plays. “Barbie Doll” describes the implications and consequences of society’s definition of femininity and how the character was affected by it. Contrasting to that poem is “Rite of Passage,” which serves to portray the coming of age of a young boy into manhood, all set within the backdrop of a birthday party. While each of these poems describe the different roles in which men and women can act on, both Piercy and Olds make the point that there are pressures that come with fitting into the right character. Furthermore, both poems’ messages extend into today’s society as many young adolescents struggle with achieving the fixed notions of femininity and masculinity. Both women and girls are socialized into society’s definition of feminine behavior. The innumerable social pressures that are put onto women to be conventional to certain ways of looking and behaving are consequentially destructive. In Durham’s research, she examined and observed a group of girls’ conversations in a middle school in the southwest region of the United States. She noted that many of these young girls are influenced by what they see on magazines such as YM or Seventeen. Mariana: I saw in YM that if you put white eye shadow on like that, it makes your eyes look bigger. Mercedes (Opening Her Eyes Wide): Does it work? Mariana: I don't know. Yeah. A little bit, maybe. Nydia: Her hair is pretty. My hair is so ugly. Laura: Your hair is pretty...
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...Running Head: Analysis of 1960s gendered media norms from the perspective of the 1960s and 2000s Analysis of 1960s gendered media norms from the perspective of the 1960s and 2000s Univers Communications 30 Gendered film norms from the 1960s and 2000s: An Introduction From its most primitive years, popular films have discussed the part of gendered norms both on screen and as viewers. Actually, emphasizing its significance to different account and standard patterns, violence against women has been conceptualized as immanent in typical Hollywood and all over more recent popular cinema. Various feminist film theorists have judged conventional filmmaking as comprised of creation and display practices imbricate in a certain set of social and political power relationships. In the procedure, these writers have proposed complicated expression of the relationships between filmic representations and cinema's place in society. The mainstream feminist film theory that grew in the 1970s depended on the idea of cinematic equipment by the help of which film technologies interrelated with the ideological determinants of the cinematic associations. In her work, most remarkably the essay, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema," (1975) Laura Mulvey stressed the problem of the female aspects in classical Hollywood and, particularly, in films of Josef von Sternberg and Alfred Hitchcock. Female spectators are presented with a choice to make out with either a male character or secondary...
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...Unveiling Beauty “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” This quotation was firstly heard in Greek in the 3rd century. This means that various people could interpret beauty in different ways. So what is beauty then? According to Oxford Dictionary, beauty is “A combination of qualities, such as shape, color, or form, that pleases the aesthetic senses, especially the sight.” On the other hand, Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines it as, “the quality or aggregate of qualities in a person or thing that gives pleasure to the senses or pleasurably exalts the mind or spirit.” Based from these stated definitions, which is a more appropriate meaning of beauty? Where and how do these perspectives come from? From these descriptions about beauty, we can say that beauty has various meanings to people and media mainly influences these perspectives. Initially, the way a person looks plays an important role in our society. Our generation becomes conscious on aesthetic beauty and they base this on the trend nowadays. “Youth, clear skin, a symmetrical face and body, feminine facial features, and an hourglass figure —are those indicating that a woman would be a healthy, fertile candidate to pass on a man's genes.” This is an example said by Amy Alkon of how women should look for them to be seen as appealing and for men to be easily attracted to them eventually. Most women in this era struggle on numerous ways on how to become beautiful and maintain their physical appearances even at...
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...The topic of the media article that I chose to analyze centers around the issue of body image among women. This advertisement was a subway commercial that featured three friends debating about their lunch choices. Two of the three friends are eating burgers and the other woman is eating a subway sandwich. The women who chose the subway sandwich as her lunch of choice immediately began criticizing her friends for choosing such unhealthy lunch choices so close to the Halloween holiday. She then implies that they should be eating subway, in order to be able to look their best in their Halloween costumes. The other two friends stare at the woman in awe as she models an array of different costumes that perpetuate female stereotypes by incorporating...
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...Beauty – 35 Years Later Frederick A. Clark # 0896254 Composition 120 Northwood University March 3, 2010 Beauty – 35 Years Later In 1975, the article “Beauty”, written by Susan Sontag, attempted to alert Americans to the stigmas and stereotypes in society doing harm to women. Sontag surmised society judged women by their beauty alone, with each portion of the body scrutinized for perfection. One would surmise from her writing, if a woman was beautiful, then somehow her ability to be objective, professional, authoritative, and thoughtful was under suspicion. This limited women rising to positions of power and leadership in business and society by conforming to expectations of society. The era of the 1970’s was about change. Traditional thinking was being replaced with viewpoints some considered radical in nature. The end of the Vietnam conflict returned our military men and women home to an America different than when they departed. The establishment was being challenged from all sides. Traditional definitions of men and women’s roles in society were in question, men wanted the freedom to choose and women wanted full recognition of equality of the sexes. Sontag was not alone in her opinion. 1975 was a time of struggle in passing of the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution of the United States (Francis), interpretation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
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...As Gender Studies started to gain more academic respectability in the contemporary society and as many female scholars take actual participation in contributing women’s perspective to the field, the problem of “gender inequality” has risen to the surface. In this paper, I would like to specifically talk about how beauty ideals that have been set up for women play its role in creating an unequal power relation between men and women. For the sake of clarity, the beauty ideals I focus on this paper are not limited to the appearances but general expectations that society make of an “ideal women”. To begin with a simple example from today’s society, women are judged by their appearances more than their abilities, and to makes things worse, their appearances are compared with...
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