Rigid body

society is viewed as one of the worst things you can be. Fat bodies are extremely stigmatized in our culture. Society is obsessed with the idea of controlling the appearance of women’s bodies- and this includes size. Fat is seen as lazy, unbearable and something we should never be okay with being. Society communicates to fat women that they should not exist in the body they do. This is communicated through the oppression of fat bodies through diet-culture and fat-shaming. These methods of…

On a daily basis, we are sent messages that we can have it all. Whether it be on television, social media or in a print article, women are seeing this month’s pinnacle of happiness and health, often resulting in comparing how we measure up, realizing that we just don’t feel adequate in comparison. The unrealistic presentations of perfection by the media impacts women in physical and psychological ways, often resulting in low self-esteem and health risks. Women have been obsessing about…

being: food, water, and shelter. The most important out of those three is arguably water. Unlike food you can only last without water for ninety hours, whereas you can go without food for weeks at a time. The reason the human body cannot last without water is simply because the body composition of a human is 70% water. As essential water is, many forget how blessed they are just to have water and end up taking it all for granted. Many tend to overlook the other purposes of water that are vital…

“Win the Fiery Antidote”: a Feminist Approach to Christina Rossetti’s Goblin Market In a time when women did not have major roles in literature or their daily lives, Christina Rossetti’s powerful poem Goblin Market is published to empower women of the Victorian Era. This poem is about two sisters, Lizzie and Laura, who live alone in the middle of the woods. They go into the woods every day to get water from the river, where they encounter goblin men selling fruits. After Laura tries…

Would you shave your head and publicly demean yourself if it meant that you could save your public image or keep your job? For the female members of Japan’s idol culture, this and other punishments are a harrowing reality. In 2013 one of the founding members of the J-Pop group AKB48, Minami Minegishi faced this exact dilemma. Minegishi was caught leaving the house of a member of one of Japan’s boy bands, and faced an immediate backlash from both her management and fans alike; her response for…

To begin with, during childhood, one’s body and mind are growing in a various number of ways. One way a child’s body is changing is through puberty. Puberty is a major transition from childhood to adulthood that most adolescents go through when they are around twelve years old. This transition changes necessary elements in the body which, when combined, develops one into an adult. This is when the difficulties of adulthood start. Also…

Article #1: “Body Norms and Fat Stigma in Global Perspective” Author Alexandra Brewis tackles the widespread view on weight and what people identify fat with. “Fatness and obesity are by contrast associated with ugliness, sexlessness, and undesirability but also with specifically moral failings, such as a lack of self-control, social irresponsibility, ineptitude, and laziness,” (Brewis). In this excerpt of the article, Brewis explains that the widespread view on Fatness and obesity and later on…

I enjoyed reading this novel very much. It was happier compared to other stories we have read this semester. When I had finished a majority of the book I was very confused as to why this was assigned to us. This book seemed outdated and I doubt I will have clients who are from this era. Footbinding is a very old custom that is no longer practiced; there may be one or two women who are still alive with bound feet. Also, the setting of this book was in the 1800s, China’s culture is significantly…

future. Stress has been around since the dawn of time. In 1920, researcher Hans Selye identified stress as a, “non-specific strain on the body caused by irregularities in normal body functions.” Stress is caused by certain stressors that make the body secrete different hormones that cause a variety of reactions. Some of these reactions can impact the body and your personal health. In order to…

side to body image there is also a positive side. But first you have to understand what body image is and why is it important. The difference between positive and negative body image. As well as the different types and the statistics of eating disorders. Last how media affects people body image. According to Planned Parenthood, “How you see yourself and how others see you is body image”. Also Planned Parenthood said, “It does not matter the person it is common to have problems with body…