Scarica Women's Beauty Standards and Family Roles in Gender Studies e più Appunti in PDF di Sociologia di Genere solo su Docsity! 22.11.21 Gender studies Topic 8 Gendered Bodies Readings: L. Courtney E. Martin, "Love Your Fat Self Every day we see these images: The body is turned into an object. The double standard of beauty: Not only women are victim of the issue of body image The make-up line for boy (not men): 25.11.21 Gender studies No matter how, but women must take care of aesthetic of their body: 2) Even the natural look is not natural. Example Victoria’s Secret they sell an image of sexuality. They are men. even here you don’t see inclusivity: no Asian person, no disabled person, no old woman. These practises are very expensive, moreover they may affect their health and their lives. up to 20% of people with serious eating disorders die from the disorder, usually of complications associated with heart problems and chemical imbalances, as well as suicide. with treatment, mortality rates fall to 2-3% about 60% recover and maintain healthy weight and social relationships 20% make only partial recoveries and remain compulsively focused on food and weight approximately 20% do not improve Research suggests that eating disorders may also reflect the ways women desire self-control in the context of limited power and autonomy. In other words, young women may turn to controlling their bodies and attempt to sculpt them to perfection because they are denied power and control in other areas of their lives. Central to understanding eating disorders, however, is the social pressure for women to measure up to cultural standards of beauty and attractiveness – often called the ‘culture of thinness’. These standards infringe on our lives whether we choose to comply with them or to resist them. DAVIS AZ al A ER Ea INT VE Riel felel Te fel ren cia
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29.11.21 Gender studies Topic 9 Marriage, Family, and Gender Reading: Emma Goldman, "Marriage and Love" The institutions of marriage and the family are deeply interwoven with the history of gender. Could you have families without gender, and what would those families look like? How do different people define what makes a marriage and a family, and are there any similarities across different places and time periods? What are the changes taking place in marriage and families right now, and how do those changes influence the ways in which we experience gender? A BRIEF HISTORY OF MARRIAGE: Coontz, Stephanie. (2005). Marriage, a history: From obedience to intimacy, or how love conquered marriage. New York, NY: Viking Press Marry down and up also include physicality. THE EVOLUTION OF MARRIAGE: In this theory seems that women don’t do so much for the growth of the society. Nuclear family Husband, wife and children. But before the food was divided between the clan. Social class is an important part of the marriage gradient, and defining social class varies across time and place. The women’s movement may have created a new marriage squeeze, especially for men with little education. In today’s world, on average, more women have been pushed up the ladder ahead of men in terms of women’s higher rates of college graduation and better job prospects. If both men and women continue to follow the marriage gradient, there are fewer women below these men to marry down. 01.12.21 Gender studies Problems: hunting is not only a male task, but also a share task because women provided food too. Why is childcare a less important task? Even if we leave aside childcare, in almost every society, the set of tasks women do are valued less than the set of tasks men do. Suggests that the actual content of the tasks done by women and men is less important than ANDROCENTRISM (the idea that men and masculinity are better than women and femininity). (Breadwinner is the person who the person who earns the more income in the family) Women who reach this ideal are considered successful. The DSS has developed during time. Like the one sex models
