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Tag: Body Image

Body Image, Fashion, Feminist/Gender Theory, Identity, Pop Culture, Society and Politics

February 26, 2016

There’s Nothing Empowering About Those ‘Body Positive’ Sports Illustrated Covers

Beauty certainly isn’t “cookie cutter” or “one size fits all” and seeing this (not so) ground-breaking idea finally appearing on the covers of an iconic beauty magazine gives it even more commercial validation for all those women out there who have never considered themselves to be ‘conventionally’ beautiful. And yet, as I looked at these…
Comics, Feminist/Gender Theory, Pop Culture, Superheroes, Visual Cultural Theory

May 20, 2015

A Female Character’s Waistline Should be as Realistic as Her Job Description

If we want our heroines to look more positively ‘realistic’ then the parameters of their realism need to be defined by their individual lifestyles just as we real women are defined by ours.