Jeepers Creepers, Where Did We Get These Peepers?

1. Jeepers Creepers, Where Did We Get These Peepers? By: Christelle, Dani, Christie, and Stephanie

2. Reading the Slender Body "In the late Victorian era, arguably for the first time in the West those who could afford to eat well began to systematically deny themselves food in pursuit of an aesthetic ideal... These forms of diet can clearly be viewed as instruments for the development of a "self"-- whether an "inner" self, for the Christians, or a public self, for the Greeks--constructed as an arena in which the deepest possibilities for human excellence may be realized. Rituals of fasting and asceticism were therefore reserved for the select few, aristocratic or priestly, who were deemed capable of achieving such excellence of spirit." (p. 185) -Why do you think this development of "self" began and why is it still prevalent today?

3. Control But preoccupation with fat, diet, and slenderness are not abnormal. Indeed, such preoccupation may function as one of the most powerful normalizing mechanisms of our century, ensuring the production of self-monitoring and self-disciplining "docile bodies" sensitive to any departure from social norms and habituated to self-improvement and self-transformation in the service of those norms." (p.186)

4. Quote From an Anorexic "Well, I had the willpower, I could train for competition, and I could turn down food any time. I remember feeling like I was on a constant high. And the pain? Sure, there was pain. It was incredible. Between the hunger and the muscle pain from the constant workouts? I can't tell you how much I hurt. You may think I was crazy to put myself through constant, intense pain. But you have to remember, I was fighting a battle. And when you get hurt in a battle, you're proud of it. " (p. 198)

5. Pro-Ana "And as is by now well known, girls and women are more likely to engage in crash dieting, laxative abuse, and compulsive exercising and are far more vulnerable to eating disorders that males." (p.204) Pro Ana Journal

6. Contemporary Anxiety and the Enemy Flab "Weight was not the key element in these changed perceptions- my standards had not come to favor thinner bodies-rather, I had come to expect a tighter, smoother, more contained body profile." (p. 188) "It is perfectly permissible in our culture (even for women) to have substantial weight and bulk- so long as it is tightly managed." (p. 191) - Do you think this is true in culture today?

7. Victoria's Secret Fashion Show 2011

8. Victoria's Secret Fashion Show Karolina Kurkova 24-year old Victoria's Secret model Karolina Kurkova is being criticized over her appearance at Sao Paulo Fashion Week, especially after a runway appearance in a bikini. -back fat -cellulite

9. Eliminating "The Bulge" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fXiqOYP65I

10. Advertisements -How many of you have seen these advertisements? -Why do you think these ads seem to be talking to women?

11. Class & Status "So, for example, when associations of fat and lower-class status exist, they are usually mediated by moral qualities--fat being perceived as indicative of laziness, lack of discipline, unwillingness to conform, and absence of all those "managerial" abilities that, according to to the dominant ideology, confer upward mobility." (p.195) -Do you agree with this? Is fat perceived as laziness?

12. The Shift In Body Image "The fact that our own era has witnessed a comparable shift (from the hourglass figure of the fifties of the androgynous, increasingly elongated, slender look that has developed over the past decade) cries out for interpretation." (p.206) -Why did this shift occur?

13. Marilyn Monroe "To all the girls who think you're ugly because you're not a size 0, you're the beautiful one, it's society who's ugly" -Marilyn Monroe -Marilyn Monroe would be considered "plus-size" in todays society. Measurements: -5 feet 5 1/2 inches -Bust: 37'' -Waist: 23'' -Hips: 36''

14. Twiggy (Lesley Hornby) Ideal Size for Runway Model Today: Height: 5'9" - 6" Bust: 32"-36" Waist: 22"-26" Hips: 33"-35" VS. -What body is more prevalent in today's society? -Do you think it's okay for children to be growing up with this perception of skinny?

15. Ideal Look For Women Barbie's proportions measured to real human... REAL WOMEN Average woman’s height is 5’4″ Their weight is approx. 140 lbs. They wear a size 14 dress Their bust is between 36″ and 37″ (B cup) Their waist is between 30″ and 34″ Their hips average between 40″ and 42″ Their shoe size is estimated to be between 8.5 and 9.5 BARBIE Barbie’s height would be 7’2″ Her weight would be 101 lbs. She would wear a size 4 dress Her bust would be 39″ (FF cup) Her waist would be 19″ (same as her head) Her hips would be 33″ Her shoe size would be a 5

16. Ideal Images: Women vs. Men "It is far more important to men than to women that their partner be slim. Women are much more prone than men to perceive themselves as too fat. And , as is by now well-known, girls and women are more likely to engage in crash dieting, laxative abuse, and compulsive exercising and are far more vulnerable to eating disorders than males." (p. 204) >>>>>>>>

18. Muscles Past: "...Muscles thus have been associated with the insensitive, unintelligent, and animalistic." (p.195) Now: "Today, however, the well-muscled body has become a cultural icon, 'working out' is a glamorized and sexualized yuppie activity. No longer signifying inferior status..." (p.195) -Why did this change in the perception of muscles occur?

19. Trophy Wife "...This ideal began to be appropriated by the status-seeking middle class, as slender wives became the showpieces of their husbands' success." (p.192) -Gretchen Rossi and her husband Jeff Beitzel -Real Housewives of Orange County reality television star

20. 16 and 51? Is this normal? Young, "hot" wife. What are your opinions on this marriage? -Is it really out of love?

21. Internal vs. External "Let me hypothesize, similarly, that preoccupation with the internal management of the body (that is, management of it's desires) is produced by instabilities in what could be called the macro-regulation of desire within the system of the social body."

22. Can one "have it all"?

23. Summary Historically, it was desirable to be fuller-figured, and represented wealth and well-being. Only people deemed worthy of a higher level of being fasted. Aesthetics were "internal," showing control of inner workings. Now, aesthetics are purely outward, relaying to other people that this person can exercise self-control for the purpose of being attractive.