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Beauty culture correct answers 1. Definition: The construction and maintenance of dominant discourses regarding what is aesthetically pleasing and fashionable. It involves the creation and promotion of attitudes, products, procedures and rituals aimed at achieving dominant beauty standards.
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IDST Final exam || with 100% Error-free Solutions.
Beauty culture correct answers 1. Definition: The construction and maintenance of dominant
discourses regarding what is aesthetically pleasing and fashionable. It involves the creation and
promotion of attitudes, products, procedures and rituals aimed at achieving dominant beauty
standards.
2. Example: advertisements in magazines
3. Significance: The media portrays images of unattainable beauty standards which influences
women's feelings of self worth and worth in society
the social construction of beauty correct answers 1. Definition: Beauty is socially constructed, it
is created at the level of culture and history. Beauty varies across time and place.
2. Example: In the 1850's corsets were very popular, by 1910 they were falling out of fashion
3. Significance: The standards of beauty are changeable!
Klaus Barbie correct answers 1. Definition: The name Susan Gilman uses for barbie dolls
because she believes that barbie is a symbol of Arianism.
2. Example: bisexual barbie
3. Significance: Klaus Barbie, and the other barbies that Gilman wants to see on the market are
an example of alternative to mainstream toys.
internalization of beauty standards correct answers 1. Definition: The idea that women begin to
take in the beauty standards and make them part of their belief system.
2. Example: 80% of 10 year old girls have been on a diet at some point in their lives
3. Significance: Many women and girls are unhappy with their bodies because our cultures
beauty standards are impossible to obtain.
Fat oppression correct answers 1. Definition: Women and men who are larger than the ideal
standard are oppressed in our society. People who are fat are often made fun of, or looked down
upon in our society.
2. Example: Fat oppression can be seen in media and movies when a character is is traveling in
an airplane. Often jokes are made about whether or not the person sitting next to them will be fat.
3. Significance: Fat oppression is a topic of feminism and feminism is working toward exposing
this type of oppression.
"Big fat revolution" correct answers 1. Definition: The revolution that Nomy Lamm is fighting
everyday to fight and overcome fat oppression. embracing one's body, and talking about
oppression and feminism are all components of the Big Fat Revolution.
2. Example: Nomy Lamm wrote about how a girl she had never met wrote her a letter and told
her that something Lamm wrote changed her life.
3. Significance: This is an example of how people are overcoming the internalization of beauty
standards and beauty culture.
"Boy Code" correct answers 1. Definition: Boys and men are taught that they are suppose to be
violent and that they need to be violent.
, 2. Example: socialization teaches boys to play things like cowboys, cops and robbers etc.
3. Significance: physical violence is the script in which men use to gain and keep control
"Tough Guise" correct answers 1. Definition: the shield men put up to avoid being called names.
2. Example: a man may try to hide emotions such as sadness to avoid being called "gay"
3. Significance: When men care about women they are seen as out of the norm or called a
"pussy".
Violent masculinity correct answers 1. Definition: Men's violence, destroying others to feel like a
man/manly. Often the violent acts are done against women and children.
2. Example: 99% of rapes are committed by men
3. Significance: mens violence is seen as inevitable
"The wussification of america" correct answers 1. Definition: the idea that men are in crisis
because women have demasculinized them.
2. Example: if a sports team canceled due to weather their event the players are see as wusses
3. Significance: There is a growing claim to reassert masculinity.
Gender based violence correct answers 1. Definition: violence that is directed at individuals
based on their specific gender role in society. this can affect men, women and transgender
individuals.
2. Example: femicide
3. Significance: serves to establish and reinforce gender hierarchies and perpetuate inequalities.
intimate partner violence correct answers 1. Definition: Violence that occurs between to intimate
partners in which one partner commits a violent act against the other. It can be between
boyfriends, girlfriends or ex partners
2. Example: 1 in 4 women will experience intimate partner violence in her lifetime
3. Significance: this is the leading cause of injury to women
chastisement correct answers 1. Definition: Domestic violence was considered to be acceptable
because it was seen as chastisement which is the idea that a man can physically punish his wife.
2. Example: If a woman did not listen to her husband he could hurt her physically as punishment
3. Significance: This was addressed in the declaration of sentiments, the idea of chastisement
shaped how the legal system treated intimate partner violence
under-reporting of intimate partner violence correct answers 1. Definition: There is an under
reporting of intimate partner violence because there is a belief that it is a private issue. Victims
may feel shame, fear, embarrassment, and self blame.
2. Example: Someone may not report the violence because they are financially dependent on that
person.
3. Significance: This is a feminist issue because so many victims out there are not able to get
help.
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