What can we do to resist beauty ideals?

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09/26/2008

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Table of Contents What can we do to resist beauty ideals? Table of Contents

 
  1. Introduction.
    1. Our current beauty ideal.
    2. Why would Mattel care about a small promoting a 'Love Your Body' message.
  2. The beauty ideal.
  3. Kirk and Okazawa-Rey's argument that the beauty ideal is an elitist standard.
  4. The beauty ideal - a part of some sort of vast male conspiracy of oppression.
  5. Beauty ideals according to evolutionary psychologists.
  6. Youth and fertility as the only consideration for men and their reptile brain when it comes to choosing a mate.
  7. The theory of a natural cyclical attraction and weight.
  8. The studies showing evolutionary explanations for the beauty ideal.
  9. Conclusion.

Abstract

Our bodies, and our ideas about the size and shape of our bodies, are shaped by both ourselves and our culture. How we view our bodies and what personal worth we ascribe to ourselves because of our bodies and the standard of perfection society sets for us is called the beauty ideal. This bar for attractiveness has, in recent years, been set higher and higher, becoming more unattainable for the general population. Why is this? what is the current unattainable standard, and what can we do, if anything, to resist it?

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pencil image M Elizabeth W.  
Level :Advanced Study : Psychology School/University : Rutgers University

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