Judith Lober and Patricia Martin noted that members of a society have constructed their bodies as ways to comply with their gender status and conform to their racial ethnic group’s expectations of how a body should look like. However, others would say that bodies are utilized as a form of self-expression. Over time, the term “body” has evidently been altered to fit different culture beliefs. Specifically,

In Western societies, medical discourse is regarded as the source of knowledge about the human body, however, the introduction to medicine brought a series of consequences for women who were once healers, surgeons, or midwives. The new profound knowledge on medicine identified the bodily functions, menstruation and menopause, as pathologies …show more content…
While women share a mutual need for consumption and self-identity, they differ in their choice of product and standards of beauty. Society has always glorified white women through excessive advertising and constant idealization. All things beauty has been associated with white women. In a consumer society, women have formed this idea that the ideal woman is white an in turn this has shaped their perception of how they should look like. Little girls grow up with advertisements of white women and they begin to identify beauty as being white. Often times this becomes problematic as women begin modifying themselves by adding white features. There have been black women that have either desired a change in skin color or went through the process of changing their skin …show more content…
As a result, they have gone above and beyond to reach the ultimate beauty. Additionally, in most western societies like the United States, women are bombarded with magazines of thin models with heavy amounts of makeup on. These unrealistic images of what a woman should look like have lead to high rates of dieting and depression. These results are most prevalent with white woman than women of color. In the United States, most black women have embraced their weight and overall appearance. The ideal image of what a beautiful woman should look like is described to be around 110 pounds and a height of five feet seven inches. Every year, young girls are modifying their looks whether it’s going to the gym every day or applying heavy amounts of