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Body Beautiful

Yazan: Candace | 26 July 2005 | Comments Off on Body Beautiful
Categories: Bodies, Women's Studies

The Beauty Log I don’t spend much time on my appearance. Take a look. Here’s what I did over the past week. I didn’t count things like applying sunscreen or bug repellant because I’d say those things are more for health than beauty. There’s a fuzzy line between those two things. Here’s the list: Monday […]

California girls

Yazan: Candace | 26 July 2005 | Comments Off on California girls
Categories: Bodies, Photography, Women's Studies

These women and many others were posing for photos with geeks galore at this year’s E3 in Los Angeles. The “booth babes” (as they are called) are as much of a draw for the Electronic Entertainment Expo as the new releases.

Body Scripts: Cultural Representations

Yazan: Candace | 26 July 2005 | Comments Off on Body Scripts: Cultural Representations
Categories: Bodies, Women's Studies

August 2005’s Cosmopolitan features an ad for Tampax Fresh: “the only cardboard tampon that doesn’t smell like a cardboard tampon.” The image used in this advertisement perpetuates dualistic paradigms and characteristics about women’s bodies. Beguile your senses. Succumb to the freshness. The colour white is associated with purity. This advertisement uses the colour white to […]

All dressed up . . .

Yazan: Candace | 26 July 2005 | Comments Off on All dressed up . . .
Categories: Bodies, Photography, Women's Studies

Isn’t she the cutest thing?

Not Born a Woman: Gender Socialization & The Female Body

Yazan: Candace | 26 July 2005 | Comments Off on Not Born a Woman: Gender Socialization & The Female Body
Categories: Bodies, Women's Studies

I cannot remember much from when I was little. My earliest memories begin with school. When I was a little girl I was teased a lot. Children love to taunt when they receive a reaction and because I got upset easily (still do) I became a daily target. Mostly I was told that I was […]

Baby!

Yazan: Candace | 25 July 2005 | Comments Off on Baby!
Categories: Bodies, Family, Photography, Women's Studies

Baby Abby

Theorizing the Body

Yazan: Candace | 25 July 2005 | Comments Off on Theorizing the Body
Categories: Bodies, Women's Studies

There are four main/popular schools of thought in regards to feminist theory: egalitarian, radical/essentialist, social constructionist, and post-structuralist The two that have the most relevance to me are social constructionist and post-structuralist theory although I know I am influenced by all four in understanding the female bodies around me. I have been told that there […]

Yazan: Candace | 25 July 2005 | Comments Off on
Categories: Bodies, Photography, Women's Studies

Put ’em all together and what does it spell? G-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-L-L-L!!!!!!!

Exotic Erotic at the Electronic Entertainment Expo

Yazan: Candace | 25 July 2005 | Comments Off on Exotic Erotic at the Electronic Entertainment Expo
Categories: Bodies, Photography, Women's Studies

This woman like the other booth babes stands ready to have her picture taken with anyone who requests it. Although I’ve captured her at a slow moment (closing time on the very last day of the convention) she was of particular interest. She represents the exotic and erotic appeal of a doubly subordinated group of […]

Racialized Bodies

Yazan: Candace | 25 July 2005 | Comments Off on Racialized Bodies
Categories: Bodies, Women's Studies

Because I am white I have experienced the privilege of being part of my society’s dominant group. I have never worried that I would be the only person ‘like me’ wherever I have needed to go. I have not stood out as being visibly different and in the community where I live; whenever I have […]

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