Susan Bordo

Beyond The Spotlight: The Misrepresentation of Women TLC’s original music video, “Unpretty” and Susan Bordo’s essay, “Material Girl” critiques the way women portray themselves by society’s definition of beauty. Women will compete for their spouse’s attention against other females with sexually, idolized bodies because they feel they lack certain aspects. Women must learn to love themselves before they…

This critique is based on a passage written by Susan Bordo titled “The Globalization of Eating Disorders”. Susan, well-known feminist scholar and Pulitzer Prize nominee in this article describes the effects of imagery in media circles on the eating habits (eating disorders) of various individuals across numerous national, cultural, racial and social backgrounds. In her work, she talks about how individuals who otherwise would have had no issues with their appearance in terms of body weight are…

inescapable, and its influence is something Susan Bordo explores in her article “Never Just Pictures”. Bordos tries to get readers to take a close look at today’s obsession with body image. What is body image? Body image is how a person sees themselves. Basically Bordo is saying that today’s society looks at videos and magazines to get ideas of what they should look like. Bordo talks about how people are starving their bodies to become thin instead of being healthy. Bordo, further opens the…

The question is who gets to decide what is admissible, a imperfection, all right or what is perfection. Another question that is up and coming is having to do with the cause of body image and eating disorders. In Susan Bordo’s essay “The Globalization of Eating Disorders,” Susan Bordo emphasizes that the media is the culprit of these disorders, and she is very accurate and thorough in her analysis. The article visualizes a young girl standing in front of a mirror looking at her body's…

Eat Your Heart Out Eating disorders have become a big problem around the World in places that people never would have expected. Susan Bordo in her article “The Globalization of Eating Disorders” describes how and why eating disorders spread around the world, against prevalent cultural norms. According to the author the spread of eating disorders globally was fueled by western media. The author begins by making the reader to envision a 115 pound anorexic young girl with “eating and body image…

issues that women have dealt with. They come from different time periods and cultural backgrounds, but they still face the same issues that women face to this day. The pieces I read were "The Empire of Images in Our World of Bodies" an articale by Susan Bordo, "Ain 't I a Women" a speech by Sojourner Truth and "Fairy Tales and Gender Stereotypes" A Students Blog by Samara Green. These women make valid points about the struggles that society places on women, but the one that speaks to me in a…

Wright differently. The men see the Wright's relationship from an outsider's stance; they know Mr. Wright to be a hard man, but have no cause to believe he was out of line in his treatment of his wife. Thus, they don't even consider Mrs. Wright's living conditions or spousal abuse as a motive. Probably, if abuse were even considered as a motive, it would be thrown out in the sexist farm society of this play. Meanwhile, the women look at Mrs. Wright's plight and what it must have been like…

does this mean that we are made to function according to the expectancy of society? In order for anyone to answer this question, it is essential to understand how the effects of the adopted set values play into our daily lives which can be seen in Susan Faludi’s essay “The Naked Citadel.” In “The Naked Citadel,” Faludi describe all the changes that occurred when they accidently admitted a female cadet into an all-male military institution. She also described the environment of the Citadel and…

The short story, “A Jury of Her Peers”, is a story that is covered with the theme of feminism and written by Susan Glaspell. The idea of Glaspell’s story came from one of her earlier literary work, a one-act play entitled Trifles. This one-act play that she had written is also a product of one of Glaspell’s work, years before she wrote the play. This work is a news story that she covered while she was still a journalist. The news story was about a murder of a man named John which is the primary…

In the story “Recitatif”, Maggie is a kitchen woman and a target for abuse. Maggie attracts the ire of the residents on St. Bonny’s due to her being mute, bowlegged, and wearing a childish hat. With a passing glance, one would think that Maggie is simply a side character who plays very little role in the story as a whole, but this cannot be further from the truth. Maggie is absolutely central to the conflict of the story, and she has a profound effect on the actions of other characters within…