The topic I have decided to use it how the objectification of women has not gone away or lessened but instead has just morphed.
These are my notes:
Women tend to be sexualized over 3 things – openness to casual sex, perceived attractiveness, and perceived age.
Sexual objectification of women in media such as ads can be traced back to the renaissance period where male artists started perceiving the women body more sexually than what it was before.
This is called “the gaze” and it is still used in advertisement today.
The image of a women is changed when society deems her most relevant.
Ads started using women in their ads for propaganda and when the war (ww2) was over women went back to being seen as housewives
In the 1970s-80s womens bodies in ads started to change physically as well instead of just posing
Their bodies would be “cut up” to make it look more erotic. This is still very much used today which is linked to many body issues that women have now.
Now beauty is whats in due to reality TV.
As well as beauty ads are no longer promoting a product but instead sex
We all know the term sex sells.
From the renaissance period women were seen as an add on, and were depicted in a more sexual way, in the 1900s women were only depicted as housewives or a “thing” that was useful to a man, afterwards in the 1950s women were used as propaganda for ww2 and then back to being housewives when it was over, after that women started being used as a way to sell products by adding “desire” by using “the gaze”. i.e sex sells.
What I have learned is that as long as there is a profit to be made, women will somehow be used to promote it. Throughout decades it is clear how women’s objectification has always changed to fit society’s view of what a perfect woman is. It is also very apparent how feminism has been a tactic used in the objectification of women. With sexual liberty came the sexualized objectification of women and also that it is so ingrained that men are not the only ones that view women more sexual than not.
My four questions are:
- Is the modern objectification of women a biproduct of consumerism and if so would subduing consumerism diminish or lessen the objectification?
- How can we as a society effectively teach young men and women about the dangers of the objectification of women as it is linked to violence against women?
- In what ways does race play into the objectification of women? For example how are some races more objectified than others?
- Has pornography done more bad for women than good? In relation to sexual liberty.
These questions are great. I think one of these would work the best:
How can we as a society effectively teach young men and women about the dangers of the objectification of women as it is linked to violence against women?
In what ways does race play into the objectification of women? For example how are some races more objectified than others?