• Explain and exemplify the social construction of beauty.
• Critically analyze the “beauty myth” and consider its implications for eating
disorders and body dysmorphia.
• Discuss the ways in which clothing and physical presentation are gendered and
socially controlled.
• Analyze the current and historical politics that inform and regulate what we think
of as the body.
▪ Read Naomi Wolf, excerpt from The Beauty Myth [PDF]. excerpt
from The Beauty Myth [PDF]. – Alternative Formats
▪ Watch “A New Standard of Beauty” [19:12];
▪ Read Sirena Riley, “The Black Beauty Myth” [PDF]
▪ Read Anastasia Higginbotham, “Teen Mags: How to Get a Guy,
Drop Ten Pounds, and Lose Your Self-Esteem” [PDF].
▪ Read Alisa L. Valdes, “Ruminations of a Feminist Fitness
▪ Read Abra Fortune Chernik, “The Body Politic” [PDF].
▪ Explain how beauty is a social construct.
▪ Discuss the ways in which power relations are reflected and
reinforced in beauty norms (for example, how a focus on beauty for
women serves to maintain women’s subordinate status).
▪ Provide an example from your own experiences or observations of
the ways that beauty norms affect men and women differently.
Provide in-text citations to course materials or other resources in MLA format.
• Discuss the ways in which clothing and physical presentation
are gendered and socially controlled.
• Explain how the intersections of gender presentation, race,
class, ability, size, and age are framed by the dominant
notions of beauty and desirability.
• Provide an image (or a link to an image) that exemplifies your
points.
• Please also bring up at least one question for us to discuss in
relation to this topic.
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