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Beauty is the beast: Psychological effects of the pursuit of the perfect female body.
... Those two realities constitute psychological and emotional abuse as well as physical abuse on the part of the king towards these young virgins. Attractiveness is prerequisite for femininity but not for masculinity (Freedman, cited in Saltzberg and Chrisler 2000). When the societal standards of beauty change, bodies of women have to change in order to be in line with acceptable appearances. ...
This study aimed to provide a critical theological reflection on the possible links between masculine images of God and gender-based violence. The objectives of the study included exploring possible alternative images of God that could be helpful in providing pastoral care to victims of gender-based violence (GBV). As such the study further set out to explore and reframe appropriate pastoral care approaches in response to the plight of victims of GBV.
Osmer’s four tasks of practical theology provided a broad framework for the research methodology and theological reflection. This study made use of desktop research to conduct an extensive literature survey as input for the conceptualisation presented in the thesis. In addition to engaging with pastoral care, as an academic field and its associated concepts, the thesis also unpacks and engages the concepts of gender, gender-based violence and various nuances in the discourse on masculinity and its relation to GBV. It includes reflections on Biblical texts containing potentially problematic notions of masculinity with regard to characters in these texts and which are also applied to God.
In engaging with some of the violent and abusive male metaphors of God in Scripture, the study highlighted the potential for these depictions to be abused in perpetuating the phenomenon of GBV. However, the study also succeeds in presenting life-giving and feminine images of God which might offer tools for pastoral care and hope for those living with the effects of GBV. These alternative female images of God have been employed as a pastoral care response to the scourge of GBV. Feminist pastoral care, womanist pastoral care and narrative pastoral care together may offer a framework for even more practical responses in this regard.
... [45][46][47] Other studies have shown that gender role stress is associated with body dissatisfaction, thinness, anxiety, and eating disorders. [48][49][50][51] On the other hand, social science researchers propose that men and women experience different amounts of stress in their daily lives due to different responses to strain based on gender norms. 51 Specifically, Rosenfield et al. 51 introduce the self-salience theory, which helps understand gender differences in mental health. ...
Introduction
Although investigations of changing gender roles have been performed globally, most studies have been conducted in high-income countries, and studies from emerging and developing countries are lacking. This study aims to examine the factor structure of the feminine gender role stress scale among women (FGRS) and explore its relationship with psychological distress (PD).
Methods
A cross-sectional study was carried out with 656 women from Kosovo using a convenience sampling technique during October 2017 and March 2018. The data were collected through face-to-face interviews and analyzed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences version 21 and Mplus 7.3. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and path analysis were used to understand the goodness-of-fit of the FGRS scale in the Kosovo context and explore the relationship between the FGRS scale and PD when treated as latent variables. Multivariance analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to understand the differences between groups of women based on employment and FGRS. Multinomial logistic regression was used to assess the prediction of different domains of FGRS for PD separately for each category while controlling for age.
Results
After demonstrating that the five-factor model of the FGRS showed a good fit to the data in this sample of Kosovo women, analyses revealed that the FGRS domains (fear of victimization and behaving with assertiveness) were positively associated with psychological distress.
Conclusion
The findings validate the usefulness of the FGRS scale in a sample of Kosovar women. The intersectionality perspective was used to interpret the importance of multiple layers of vulnerabilities and their coexistence, including education, socioeconomic status, and their implications for health inequalities.
... This social pressure on women is further entrenched by families and reference groups as they intervene in different stages of the decision process, starting from problem recognition to the purchase stage (Al-Hashimi & AlDhari, 2019;Rajput et al., 2012). Saltzberg and Chrisler (2006) talked about the objectification of women that becomes cultural and the pressure to conform to beauty ideals. In a collectivist culture such as Morocco, women are subject to stronger influence from groups and families, since they take them as a reference for identification. ...
The aim of this research is to understand female customers of beauty parlours in Morocco and determine the key decision factors that have the biggest impact on their satisfaction and loyalty. The assessment of customers’ satisfaction is achieved through the measurement of three key attributes adapted from the Kano model: threshold, performance, and excitement. Combined with demographical analyses, the results defined consumers’ key satisfaction factors of beauty-care offerings in Morocco and provided a fundamental understanding of customer value perception. We hope this is a utile for businesses to improve their customer retention programmes and increase loyalty. We used logistic regression to analyse the results of a sample of 321 women from different cities in Morocco. The results revealed that there is a gap between customers’ expectations and the service level received, and a delivery failure on a number of business aspects. Personal and psychological needs were found to drive satisfaction on a threshold level, and are moderated by age and education; price and physical environment were the most significant attributes on the performance level; and information availability, billing system clarity, consultation, and personnel ability were found to be the most significant attributes on the excitement level.
... Further, and critical to this argument, these shapes are then accentuated by extrabodily extensions which function to emphasise particular attributes, which can be read as just as much a part of the body as its 'original parts.' The ways in which material female bodies become manipulated, cut, stretch, cinched and refigured to suit the beauty ideals of specific contexts is well-theorised (Naomi Wolf 1991; Elayne Saltzberg and Joan Chrisler 1995). In particular, items such as 'Spanx', corsets (see Jessica Taylor 2016 for a detailed elucidation on this), and high heeled shoes can change both the appearance as well as physical functioning of the biological body in order to align with social trends (Allan Mazur 1986). ...
In this article, we consider the emerging trend of solo, female-led superhero films, and their repeated location in aesthetically distinct pasts or “closed moments.” This pastness, we contend, serves to distinguish the concerns of the protagonists, which are often read as feminist, as redundant for the contemporary audience. This framing is in keeping with a postfeminist cultural context, wherein feminist values and successes are celebrated, while simultaneously declared irrelevant.
We examine the historical or closed settings in Wonder Woman (2017), Wonder Woman 1984 (2020), Captain Marvel (2019) and Black Widow (2021), and consider how this collective investment in the past impacts and informs the films’ engagement with sexism. We also explore how the bodies of the protagonists become implicated in this process, via the repeated framing of particular body politics as historically resolved. Overall, we signal the birth of a new subgenre, and signpost the continued containment of female superheroes, even as they, and their politics, become more visible.
The paper is an attempt to understand experiences of and around beauty for urban Indianwomen through interviews with fashion models and cosmetic surgery users based in NewDelhi. The sample chosen includes the desired ideal of beauty on one hand and aspirants ofbeauty on the other, facilitating a multidimensional perspective on the phenomenon.Qualitative analysis using a combination of Critical Discourse Analysis and InterpretativePhenomenological Analysis reveals the dominance of body centrism and ideal of flawlessness asframing discourses that influence participant‟s subjectivity as they engage in a pursuit ofbeauty. The discussion of these findings illustrates the ways in which the participants sanctionand legitimize these discourses while also expressing the concerns and distress of embodyingthe spelt standards. The study reveals the complex terrain of beauty and its practices thatpositions women in a paradoxical state of empowerment and enslavement.
The paper is an attempt to understand experiences of and around beauty for urban Indian
women through interviews with fashion models and cosmetic surgery users based in New
Delhi. The sample chosen includes the desired ideal of beauty on one hand and aspirants of
beauty on the other, facilitating a multidimensional understanding of the phenomenon.
Qualitative analysis using a combination of Critical Discourse Analysis and Interpretative
Phenomenological Analysis reveals the dominance of body centrism and ideal of flawlessness as
framing discourses that influence participant‟s subjectivity as they engage in a pursuit of
beauty. The discussion of these findings illustrates the ways in which the participants sanction
and legitimize these discourses while also expressing the concerns and distress of embodying
the spelt standards. The study reveals the complex terrain of beauty and its practices that
positions women in a paradoxical state of empowerment and enslavement
In the current study we move away from bias-focused, White-centric research to examine relationships between gender, race/ethnicity, and weight-related attitudes, identity, and beliefs among Black, Black/White Biracial, East Asian, Hispanic/Latino, Native American, South Asian, and White U.S. Americans who self-identify as higher weight. The results showed that: (1) women identify as fat more than men do, (2) fat identity, operationalized as feelings of similarity to fat people (self-stereotyping) and importance of weight to one's sense of self (identity centrality) are relatively similar across races and ethnicities, and (3) fat identity and weight-related beliefs are related to positivity toward fat people across the racial/ethnic groups sampled in this study.
This study investigates images of black (and white) characters in contemporary American slavery-themed novel written by white authors, focusing on two novels, Property (2003) and Rhett Butler’s People (2007). The theoretical hegemony of Gramsci is utilized to suggest that if the slavery-themed novel is still rewritten in the era of twenty-first century, it should have a new insight about racism and should be also understood. Three points that revealed by this article dealing with hegemonic discourse on both novels; the representation of black beauty, black behavior, and the relation of black-white attested that the white supremacy is still sustained in the USA. The change of the story composition is there, but the racist ideology kept existed in the subtle way.
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