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Annotated Bibliography: Female Beauty Standards

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Female Beauty Standards (Annotated Bibliography)
Enbow-Buitenhuis, A. (2014). A Feminine double-bind? Towards understanding the commercialisation of beauty through examining anti-ageing culture. Social Alternatives, 33(2), 43-49. Retrieved from http://ezproxy.marshall.edu:2111/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=24a28c73-5e3a-4599-a19d-0a777ac4ba8a%40sessionmgr4003&vid=7&hid=4207
This article mainly talks about the growing consumption of cosmetic goods and why there has been such an increase in the past ten years. An experiment was conducted and concluded that a strong pressure exists in women age 18-60 to conform to ideal beauty standards. The article concludes that the growing modernity of beauty culture has constructed a fictional or magical …show more content…

Photo editing convinces viewers that the ideal women should look a certain way, which is impossible to do naturally. The article includes statistics on the growing number of teens having cosmetic surgery. Even an experiment was conducted in this research paper, a study included 263 females and 130 males, with an average age of 15 years old. Some were given surveys to fill and some were given retouched and unretouched photos in different groups and asked to rate the attractiveness of the people in the photos. The results were that the girls felt more of a concern with appearance and pressure to meet the media’s ideals, and greater objectified body consciousness. The retouched photos were voted more attractive than the natural photos. To conclude the overall argument of the article is that when adolescents are exposed to retouched images it makes them compare themselves to something unrealistic causing a negative …show more content…

They had women fill out an online survey about body image at YouBeauty.com. The results concluded that positive well-being was correlated with lower BMI while negative correlated with higher BMI. The research also suggested that if media advertised more about self-worth, appreciating, and accepting your body then they would be promoting positive body image to women around the world. Overall the article explains and gives examples of the correlation between being happy and the happiness about one’s body.
I can use this in my research to show that such strict female beauty standards can really hurt a person’s life. It can cause eating disorders, depression, and low self-worth. If companies stopped manipulating their media to be unrealistic, women around the world wouldn’t feel so much pressure to meet their standards. If the media wasn’t always photo shopped, or edited, or persuasive to changing the way people look; maybe there wouldn’t be so many eating disorders, depression and anxiety cases. This case even says that their studies show if media promoted self-acceptance, then it would be promoting positive body image to

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This constant fixation on physical perfection has created unreasonable beauty standards for women, ones we cannot possibly achieve on our own. Such standards permeate all forms of popular media, particularly fashion magazines and advertisements. Women are bombarded with the notion that we must be thin in order to be desirable. These images project an

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Humans encompass great achievements and inspire change to the status quo at an alarming rate, however we drop the ball on a multitude of areas when it comes to social equality. One of those areas being The Beauty Myth that confine women to a man’s institution in a patriarchal society, which creates a variety of social problems. Today I would like to compare the ideals of the Beauty Myth and compare them to Delaney’s writing in the chapter titled Food for Thought, and specifically focus in on the section, Of Meat and Men, showing the similarities between the food we eat and our gender. First, in Naomi Wolf’s, The Beauty Myth, I was introduced to a perspective that I never actually had before reading this piece.

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