Sexualization

"It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent." Madeleine Albright. A woman's voice is one that is often twisted and constrained by authority figures, the modern media, and individuals who hold beliefs rooted in sexism and misogyny, often this encopmasses a large amount of the general public. Reasoning for this silencing is rooted in traditional gender roles forced on women and the fear that the feminist and the empowered woman will…

In 1921, Florence Cathcart, a notorious author and paranormal hoax exposer from London is invited to an elite boys boarding school in the countryside to investigate alleged sightings of a child ghost. Cathcart is an educated woman from a wealthy family who will disprove anyone who questions her professional credibility. Her investigation at the school uncovers a whole part of her past she did not know existed. Through The Awakening, we are exposed to gender portrayals and roles that are…

Yunior narrates that “Gradually Beli began to see beyond the catcalls and the Dios mio asesina and the y ese tetatorio and the que pechonalidad… it dawned on Beli: Men liked her” (Díaz 93). Yunior’s emphasis on what people call Beli highlights the sexualization and objectification coming from these Latino men, including Yunior himself. Beli is still very young at this age, but she is already being objectified and sexualized because of her gender. The men are intrigued by her “exoticness”: her…

tight fitting, slim and chic. The dresses Vesper wears, and other women who appear in the film, are very low-cut, revealing, and tight fitting as well. The sexualization of women in society is prominent in both films, as even the coined term ‘Bond girl’ is well-known. The early version of Casino Royale starts to push the envelope of sexualization in film with lines such as ‘That’s the first time I’ve ever gone around with a man’, ‘...Celestial Virgin of the Sacred Altar. Figuratively speaking,…

great deal of time at home compared to older children; therefore, social learning at home, both from mother’s and from television, was expected to be particularly important for early sexualization. Sexualization can be defined as APA’S 2007 definition as the act of being sexualized or sexualizing oneself (self sexualization), which includes reducing physical attractiveness to sexiness, valuing someone based solely on sex appeal, or treating someone as a sexual object rather than as a person.…

id wearing a minimal amount of clothing. Ironically, the model also appears to be size 0. The introduction of feminist theory allowed me to understand that the underlying message of this commercial is very political. Apart from the outrageous sexualization of the woman consuming food on the screen, the main point that I see is that this commercial not only emphasizes the idea that women are only viable for visual and physical pleasure, but that it also carries subtle propaganda stating that…

city, standing frozen in time, has given more than a possible educated guess to the ways of life of the residents of Pompeii. Through various works of art, we have in insight into the ever-present patriarchy, differences in social status, and sexualization of women. 
 Firstly, we will look at the status women held during this time. In the portrait of “Terentius Neo and His Wife” the woman remains unnamed. In…

There is nothing wrong with little girls wearing cute pink dresses and walking down a stage to perform a few adorable stunts or tricks. However, there is everything wrong when these actions could potentially lead to long term damages in young girls. And therein lies the problem with child beauty pageants. They have the potential to create long term issues for the many of the female children who are asked to participate in them. This is the stance that “Toddlers and Tiaras” takes regarding the…

Identity is the characteristics, traits and personality that makes someone who they are. The article “Identity Politics Address Real Problems of Discrimination” by Imani Perry suggests that identity, apart from being a “personal possession” is a representation of how a group will be seeing in society. According to this view, different groups will either benefit or suffer the impediments that come along with their identities. Politics play an essential and important role on the way identities are…

Patricia Loher SOC- 220 10/28/14 1. Before entering this sociology class I have never heard of the phrase moral panic before. So to me after learning about what exactly a moral panic is, in my own words a moral panic is basically an extreme panicked response expressed by the public believing that a certain issue threatens a “normal” society, (social order). When comparing Cohen’s processual model and Goode and Ben-Yehuda attributional model of moral panics, there are many similarities and many…