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Archive for the 'Women’s Studies' Category

Altered Bodies: Disability, Illness and Aging

Yazan: Candace | 28 July 2005 | Comments Off on Altered Bodies: Disability, Illness and Aging
Categories: Aging, Bodies, Feminism, Women's Studies

The concept of control greatly affects my body thoughts and practices. I have had experience with illness and aging and being unable to control my body. These experiences continue to shape the way I behave. Because I overbook myself and get involved in too many activities and take on too many responsibilities I place great […]

Mary Mary quite contrary, how does your garden grow?

Yazan: Candace | 26 July 2005 | Comments Off on Mary Mary quite contrary, how does your garden grow?
Categories: Bodies, Photography, Women's Studies

Pregrancy is supposed to be a blissful time, but what if it isn’t?

Reproductive Bodies

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

There is a myth that pregnancy, birth, and breastfeeding are ‘natural’ and therefore ‘easy’ for all women regardless of their race, sexuality, religion, ability, age, or socioeconomic status. This is the paradigm that has substantially shaped my views around reproduction. I was not prepared for the difficulties I encountered during my pregnancies. I expected pregnancy […]

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

This one’s not retouched, just desaturated so you can’t see the stretchmarks so much. Mmmm. stretchmarks. moles. freckles. hair. how sexy.

Sexy Bodies (sensitive content)

Yazan: Candace | 26 July 2005 | Comments Off on Sexy Bodies (sensitive content)
Categories: Bodies, Women's Studies

Warning: contains sensitive material. When I was sixteen my boyfriend raped me. It was my first sexual experience. Before this I was completely ignorant: I did not know about penises, or erections, or sexual pleasure. I was taught as a young girl to always wear clean underwear and never take them off. As a girl […]

Unbearable Weight

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

My mother was an on-again off-again member of Weight Watchers. Throughout my childhood she was a constant dieter: she did aerobics every morning (from the t.v.) and several nights each week (t.v. or at a centre), took diet pills, laxatives, measured her food, recorded every bite – or skipped meals completely. I don’t remember her […]

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

All of these women are beautiful. But it’s not because of how they look, it’s because they have substance. Beauty has come to mean different things to different people. What once referred to aesthetics or physical appearance can now refer to content.

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 […]