The Body Ritual Among the Nacirema/Extended The Body Ritual Among the Nacirema/Extended When I look at the rituals in this reading the thing that sticks out the most is the way that women are treated or looked at. The rituals that are talked about I can’t see being a part of today’s society. I do have to remember that this is an area outside of the United States that do not have the same advantages that we have. Women in this instance seem to be the focal point of control when it comes to shape and reproduction controls. One of the first rituals that concerned I was the way that breast feeding was look at.
During the late-Victorian era, society stereotyped women as the frail sex. In fact, Women’s clothes from this period portrayed women’s image as pure princesses. During the late Victorian era, women’s dresses were so elaborated and restricted that affected their way of sat, walked and bended their arms and legs. In contrast, Men’s clothes were more comfortable and simple. For instance, women had to wear the corset, which confined their bodies under many undergarments.
We read the article “Spice Girls,” “Nice Girls,” “Girlies,” and “Tomboys”: Gender Discourses, Girls’ Cultures, and Femininities in the Primary Classroom and discussed the subgroups that girls have at school. There were four groups: spice girls, nice girls, girlies and tomboys. Each group has their own culture. The spice girls are perceived to have power by acting negatively towards the other groups. The girlies were interested in jewelry, fashion and other stereotypical feminine items.
Body dissatisfaction is a major impetus for surgical enhancement. The more a woman is unhappy with her physical looks the more likely she is to get an enhancement procedure. The other body image driving force is appearance investment. Many women want to do it for themselves and or for social reasons. These women feel that appearance is important to their self worth.
This is a familiar human gesture but also serves to frame and bring out her fullness. This pose is also found in the art of lower Central America, Colombia’s neighbors and trading partners to the north. Even without being pregnant, a woman’s plumpness was a positive characteristic, since biologically a woman needs a certain amount of body fat to reproduce effectively and to nurse
Furthermore, it is important to recognize that hair is with out a doubt the most complex signifier African American women and girls use to display their identities in order to take on situated social meanings, and to understand how and why hair comes to matter so much in a Black women’s construction of their identity. Just as mentioned in Chris Rock’s, Good Hair, in Jacobs-Hueys’ book it is also evident that Black women feel the need to conform their natural state to a more common, typical look. It is through the hair salons, and educational seminars that teach individuals when hair is hair, and alternatively when hair is not just hair. These two seemingly contradictory stances hint at just
As stated in the article by Robin Henig, “Over the centuries, women have mauled and manipulated just about every body part – lips, eyes, ears, waists, skulls, foreheads, feet… (55). With certain ways women try to build their confidence level for their visual appearance, they go through a great deal of risks; consequently, severe dangers are more likely to occur, also expressed in the article. In this article, Robin Marantz Henig explains and exposes many different forms and ways woman have deliberately made changes to their bodily figures to fit in the standards of perfection in beauty. She clearly isn’t in favor of these practices from her statement in the article, “The crazed quest for beauty at any cost had led to some bizarre practices along the way” (56). Exactly, very bizarre practices that woman go by to feel better about there appearance rather then their health.
5. Using examples from the reading you have done for this course describe and discuss how the social construction of “beauty” or the “beauty myth” affects women who have been diagnosed with cancer. Throughout history a woman's value has been determined in terms of her physical appearance and ability to mirror a socially constructed idea of beauty that continues within western society. As a result, a woman's body image, feelings of sexual attractiveness, and self-esteem has been negatively influenced by society. Due to society’s creation of unrealistic images of what women are supposed to look like, many women who have lost a breast to cancer with experience a decrease in self-esteem and have other negative emotions.
Since we don’t realize that others’ styles are different, we miscommunicate with each other causing problems and conflicts in conversation. Conflicts are influenced by our gender and experienced everyday in the workplace, public, and private settings. Men and women both have many different conversational ways. The common ways among us men often involve “using things such as joking, teasing, and playful put-downs.” We can sometimes come across as hostile and arrogant when we aren’t trying to be. The conversational rituals common among women are often ways of “maintaining an appearance of equality, taking into account the effort of the exchange on the other person, using up effort to downplay the speaker’s authority so they can get the job done without flexing their muscles in an obvious way.” Women use conversational strategies to avoid appearing conceited and take another person’s feelings into account.
The most significant part of this theory reveals that men feel that it is crucial to be respected, and it is important to preserve their independence, while women feel that it is more important to be liked, and they are always seeking a human connection. In short words Genderlect is the word used to describe the relationship between a speakers gender and the language that they use. For example, it is stereotypical accepted that women gossip, often discussing personal and domestic issues whereas men communicate at an exposed minimum level only to communicate important topics. This happens also with the sound of voices of different