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Journal articles on the topic "Body-positive feminism"
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Montana, Andrea Yovanny, and Ahmad Junaidi. "Pengaruh Instagram @Feminist Terhadap Perubahan Pandangan Standar Kecantikan Wanita Indonesia." Kiwari 1, no. 1 (March 1, 2022): 54. http://dx.doi.org/10.24912/ki.v1i1.15503.
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The daily life of Indonesian people have been affected a lot by social media. Communication is more often done through social media than in person, especially during the pandemic. This makes social media have a big influence on people's perceptions. Social media that has a big influence on Indonesian society because of the large number of enthusiasts is Instagram. Instagram @FEMINIST is an account that discusses feminism issues. One of the worrying issues of feminism is about women's beauty standards. The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of Instagram @FEMINIST on changes in the views of Indonesian women's beauty standards. Quantitative methods is the method this study uses. The population in this study are followers of the @FEMINIST Instagram account. The sample taken is 100 respondents. Data was obtained by distributing questionnaires using a Likert scale with the indicators of Media Exposure and Body Image theory. The results of the Hypothesis Testing obtained using IBM SPSS version 22.0 For Windows obtained a significance value of 0.000 <0.05 with a t-count of 6.461 > 1.984 so it can be concluded that the hypothesis test or t-test is acceptable. So H0 is rejected and H1 is accepted, which shows that Instagram @FEMINIST exposure has a positive effect on the view of Indonesian women's beauty standards. Kehidupan sehari-hari masyarakat Indonesia telah banyak dipengaruhi media sosial. Komunikasi lebih sering dilakukan melalui media sosial dibandingkan secara langsung, terutama saat masa pandemi. Hal ini membuat media sosial memiliki pengaruh besar terhadap persepsi masyarakat. Media sosial yang berpengaruh besar pada masyarakat Indonesia karena banyaknya peminat adalah Instagram. Instagram @FEMINIST merupakan akun yang membahas mengenai isu-isu feminisme. Salah satu isu feminisme yang mengkhawatirkan adalah tentang standar kecantikan wanita. Tujuan penelitian adalah untuk mengetahui pengaruh instagram @FEMINIST terhadap perubahan pandangan standar kecantikan wanita indonesia. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kuantitatif. Populasi dalam penelitian ini adalah followers dari akun instagram @FEMINIST. Sampel yang diambil berjumlah 100 responden. Data diperoleh dengan menyebarkan kuesioner yang menggunakan skala likert dengan indikator teori Terpaan Media dan Body Image. Hasil Uji Hipotesis yang didapat menggunakan IBM SPSS versi 22.0 For Windows diperoleh nilai signifikansi sebesar 0,000 < 0,05 dengan t hitung 6,461 > 1,984 kesimpulannya adalah uji t uji hipotesis atau uji hipotesis dapat diterima. Hasilnya H0 ditolak dan H1 diterima, yang bermaksud Terpaan Instagram @FEMINIST berpengaruh positif terhadap pandangan standar kecantikan wanita Indonesia.
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Omeragić, Merima. "THE MOTHERHOOD CONTINENT AS A WRITING SPACE IN THE WORKS OF JASMINA TEŠANOVIĆ." Folia linguistica et litteraria XII, no. 34 (April 2021): 119–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.31902/fll.34.2021.7.
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The phenomenon of motherhood is a challenging focus for research in the feminist literary theory/critique. The motherhood continent as a controversial point of contention in the society has become (or remains) a polemicized field between the traditionalism, critical, essentialist feminism and epistemology. Advocating for the deconstruction of social postulates of patriarchy starts with a revision of the positive connotations of motherhood, demonization of abortion/birth control, and the right to birth self-determination. In the struggle for power and control at the waning of matriarchy, the androcentric order established the purpose, model and objectives of motherhood. The examination in this work destabilizes elements of motherhood in A Women's Book, The Mermaids, Matrimonium, and Nefertiti Was Here. The objective of this work is to deconstruct the concept of motherhood that is present in our paternal/patriarchal traditions by denouncing the harmful and deeply rooted stereotypes. Simultaneously the work exposes and highlights the need for affirmation of authentic feminine legacy, elucidates aspects of the mother daughter relationship, and promotes the accomplishments of regional literature. In this scientific approach to the phenomenon of motherhood, the work makes use of such theoretical concepts as: ideology of intensive motherhood, creation of body language and women's writing, motherly instinct, maternal ideology, matriarchy and mythology, the black continent, identification with the mother, as well as the mother-daughter relationship, the child's belonging, motherhood and non-motherhood and abortion-birth sterility. The inclusion of these themes in the narratives is an indicative question of the subjective affirmative experience of motherhood, where we find transcendental impulses for generating women's language and creation, which juxtapose ideological norms, intensity of motherhood and achieve autonomy in literary creation.
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Tanate, Valentina Lovina, Feliks Tans, and Agustinus Semiun. "ANALISIS TEKS PADA ANGKUTAN KOTA JALUR 2 (DUA) KOTA KUPANG: SEBUAH KAJIAN WACANA KRITIS (TEXT ANALYSIS ON PUBLIC TRANSPORT LANE 2 (TWO) KUPANG CITY: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE STUDY)." Metalingua: Jurnal Penelitian Bahasa 18, no. 1 (June 30, 2020): 163. http://dx.doi.org/10.26499/metalingua.v18i1.492.
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This paper analyzes the texts written on Kupang City public transport Lane 2. The abundant texts in the corners of the city in various forms and messages represent the language dynamics varied from polite to harsh. This paper aims at explaining the form of such texts, analyzing the production, distribution, and consumption of such text and analyzing their socio-cultural practices using critical discourse analysis method of Norman Fairclough’s. The results showed that only 19.15 % of the texts contains positive meanings and 80.85% of them contains negative ones. The textswere made by the drivers, the owners of the transport, and the drivers’ assistants by writing it on the body of the vehicle. The texts are distributed directly through the city transportation media. The texts are about social rules of the community both positive and negative behavior. Texts have power relations and ideology. Ideologies that participate in the practice of such discourse are liberalism, feminism, religion, and capitalism.AbstrakKajian ini menganalisis tulisan di angkutan kota Jalur 2 Kota Kupang. Maraknya tulisan-tulisan di sudut-sudut kota dengan berbagai bentuk dan pesan merupakan contoh nyata dinamika bahasa mulai dari yang santun sampai dengan yang keras. Tujuan kajian adalah untuk menjelaskan bentuk teks pada angkutan kota Jalur 2 di Kota Kupang, menganalisis produksi, penyebaran, dan konsumsi teks, serta menganalisis praktik sosio-budaya dari teks itu menggunakan teori analisis wacana kritis Norman Fairclough. Metode yang digunakan untuk menganalisis teks adalah metode analisis wacana kritis. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa hanya 19,15% teks mengandung pesan positif dan 80,85% mengandung pesan negatif. Teks diproduksi oleh sopir, pemilik angkutan, dan kondektur dengan cara menulis di badan angkutan kota. Teks disebarkan secara langsung melalui media angkutan kota. Teks pada angkutan kota di Kota Kupang tersebut merujuk pada perilaku sosial masyarakat, baik perilaku positif maupun negatif. Teks memiliki relasi kekuasaan dan ideologi. Ideologi yang turut serta di dalam praktik wacana ialah liberalisme,feminisme, agama, dan kapitalisme.
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McCarthy, Margaret Harper. "“Headship”: Making the Case for Fruitful Equality in a World of Indifferent Sameness and Unbridgeable Difference." Religions 11, no. 6 (June 16, 2020): 295. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel11060295.
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The article takes up the biblical category of “headship,” one of the “third rails” for Christians in a context dominated by the limited conceptions of equality, especially those assumed by “second wave” and “difference” feminism, viz., that of interchangeable sameness and unbridgeable difference. Headship is easily dismissed as an instance of (bad) cultural influence that spoiled Christianity’s egalitarian beginnings. Less radically, headship is simply avoided, or glossed over with apologetic caveats. Headship is an embarrassment, because it suggests not only exclusive differences—the “head” is not the “body”—but an order between them. Head and body are “subject to each other” in distinct and coordinated ways. In what follows, the author claims that headship is not only not an affront to equality, but its very condition between subjects who belong to each other in a generous relation of reciprocal and fruitful unity and distinction. Moreover, it is the expression of the novelty of Christianity, regarding first of all the nature of God in whom there is an original Head, and a “positive other,” without any hint of subordinationism (inequality). On the contrary, the Father is never absolute, but always already determined by the Son. This original headship then informs the Christian conception of the world, its positivity, even to the point that it can give something to God. Finally, it informs the this-worldly headships (Christ–Church and husband–wife). There, headship counters the status quo, by countering the “body’s” default immanentistic “certainty” about her exclusive life-giving power, enjoining her to acknowledge a transcendent source. It restores equality to the head. For the “head,” it counters the false absolutist image of God, while enjoining him to “radiate” something of which he is first “subject,” to “be involved with,” and determined by, the woman, as a positive other. It restores equality to the body. In sum, the article urges us to turn towards the deepest resources of Christianity, to find therein a more fruitful equality.
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Vachhani, Sheena J. "Always different?: exploring the monstrous-feminine and maternal embodiment in organisation." Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal 33, no. 7 (September 15, 2014): 648–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/edi-05-2012-0047.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to problematise the notion of woman-as-monster and draws together a conceptual analysis of the monstrous-feminine and its relation to maternal and monstrous bodies including its implications for equality and inclusion in the workplace. Design/methodology/approach – Whilst exploring how female monsters are inextricably tied to their sexual difference, the author draws on social and psychoanalytic perspectives to suggest how such monstrosity is expressed through ambivalence to the maternal. The author analyses two “faces” of the monstrous-feminine in particular: the archaic mother and the monstrous womb (Creed, 1993) and develop this discussion in relation to the potential for a feminist monstrous politics of organisation. Findings – First, the author exposes the basis on which the monstrous-feminine articulates and disarticulates femininity, that is to say, how a feminist analysis of monsters may enable but also foreclose a positive articulation of disruption, disorder and disorganisation central to the conceptualisation of monsters. This is done through a reading of the maternal-feminine and literature on motherhood in organisation studies. Second, the author locates the monstrous-feminine in the body and explores how maternal bodies are constructed and experienced as monstrous as they disrupt the self/other relationship. This analysis suggests that embodying the monster comes with risks and that different configurations of the monstrous maternal are necessary for equality and inclusion in the workplace. Originality/value – The paper identifies and contributes to growing research on the ambivalence of monsters and expands a neglected area of the feminine and maternal aspects of these relationships and what this means for workplace relations.
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Rae, Gavin. "Merleau-Ponty on the Sexed Body." Journal of Phenomenological Psychology 51, no. 2 (November 20, 2020): 162–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15691624-12341376.
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Abstract This paper engages with Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s account of the sexed body in the Phenomenology of Perception. I focus on his notion of the sexual schema to show that, contrary to a number of feminist critiques, it does not (1) posit a neutral body overcoded by culturally-contingent sexual determinations or (2) erase the feminine body, but is informed by Merleau-Ponty particular version of the phenomenological reduction whereby factic determinations are “bracketed” to permit the object under study to reveal itself as it is rather than as we wish it to be or have been conditioned to think it. I subsequently defend Merleau-Ponty against the long-standing claim that entwining sexuality with existence prevents an analytic and by extension positive conception of sexuality by arguing that he rejects the monadic logic that this charge is premised on to instead challenge us to think of sexuality in terms of its integration with an individual’s entire embodied, embedded existence. The result is an analysis that emphasizes the ambiguity, afoundationalism, individuality, and open-ended immanent expressivity of sexuality.
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Cwynar-Horta, Jessica. "The Commodification of the Body Positive Movement on Instagram." Stream: Interdisciplinary Journal of Communication 8, no. 2 (December 31, 2016): 36–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.21810/strm.v8i2.203.
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Since 2012 there has been a heightened presence of the body positive movement on Instagram. Women who occupy non-normative bodies use the platform to post selfies to challenge dominant ideals of feminine beauty, including the demands to produce smooth skin, adhere to body size norms, and avoid bodily fluids. This has been accompanied by a barrage of media outlets advising their readers on the top body positive accounts they need in their life to boost their body confidence, and how to be body positive on Instagram for more self-love (Irish Examiner, 2016; Burke 2015; Vino, 2015; O'Reilly, 2016). News media circulated articles across social media platforms with stories heralding women who, through the use of selfies, open up about their experiences with eating disorders, shut body shamers down, challenge "bikini body" myths, and confront expectations directed at women's post-pregnancy bodies. Women who share the same experiences of and frustration with dominant ideals of femininity have identified with and participated in this movement through the use of body-positive hash tags, captions, and subject matter. However, as the popularity of the body positive movement and the influence of advocates grew, corporations began commoditizing the body positive advocates and using their influence to push products, capitalizing off of the movement. During the commodification process, the body positive advocates lose sight of their purpose and reproduce dominant capitalist ideologies, objectify their own bodies, and accept beauty modification practices.
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Bartow, Ann. ""Are You There, Trademark Law? It's Me, Misogyny."." Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 41, no. 1 (November 8, 2021): 11–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.52214/cjgl.v41i1.8816.
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When I became aware of the emergent body of legal scholarship on menstruation related topics on which this Symposium builds, I thought that the authors of these articles were very brave.1 I’m an imperfect but life-long feminist and accepted the emotional challenge that writing this Essay posed for me out of gratitude to those authors. Because my principal scholarly focus is intellectual property law, I approached the topic through the lens of trademark law. Part One of this article positions this Essay firmly within the contours of the author’s life and personal experiences with menstruation. Part Two maps common trademark and branding practices related to tampons and sanitary napkins. Part Three explains that the Lanham Act does not offer legal mechanisms by which to challenge the federal registration of sexist trademarks. As with racist trademarks, amplified criticism and persistent public pressure are the main mechanisms available to foment positive change in the marketplace for feminine hygiene products.
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Goldgaber, Deborah. "Return to the Repressive: Re-thinking Nature- Culture in Contemporary Feminist Theory." Open Philosophy 1, no. 1 (November 1, 2018): 245–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/opphil-2018-0018.
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AbstractIn “History of Sexuality” (Vol I.) Foucault argued that repression is the wrong model of power, understanding it in exclusively negative terms, as external to the body it constrains and inhibits. Power may also be positive, productive, and constitutive of the body and its possibilities. Thus, an adequate account of the relation between cultural forces and the body, Foucault argues, must challenge the “repressive hypothesis” (RH). Contemporary feminist accounts of the body are structured by this same oppositional view of power Foucault assumed: to call on Rosi Braidotti’s distinction, discursive (cultural) forces are either negative or repressive (potestas) or positive and empowering (potentia). In this paper I argue that this opposition forecloses several possibilities for thinking the morphogenetic role of culture. In particular, it assumes wrongly that repressive relations cannot be productive.
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Hynnä, Kaisu, and Katariina Kyrölä. "“Feel in Your Body”: Fat Activist Affects in Blogs." Social Media + Society 5, no. 4 (October 2019): 205630511987998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2056305119879983.
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This article interrogates how body positive and fat activist blogs offer alternative ways of feeling one’s body, using the Finnish More to Love ( MTL, 2009–2013) and its successor PlusMimmi ( PM, 2013–) and the American Queer Fat Femme Guide to Life ( QFF, 2008–) as its examples. We investigate how these blogs, despite their differences, invite their publics not only to feel positive about their own and others’ norm-exceeding bodies, but to feel in their bodies. While previous studies have criticized body positive discourses for employing a simplistic language of choice and relying on heteronormative logics of feminine attractiveness, they have not paid specific attention to how exactly body positive media attract and engage people affectively. In this article, MTL, PM, and QFF’s strategies of inviting their followers to feel in their bodies are analyzed in the context of three key themes: exercise, fashion, and sex. We argue that when explored through the framework of affect, fat activist blogs do not present body positivity simply as a matter of choice but offer a space to feel through the affective contradictions of inhabiting a fat feminine body in a sizeist society. At their best, body positive blogs open up spaces of comfort which can be radical for bodies accustomed to discomfort.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Body-positive feminism"
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Golac, Zamora Gianella Bessy. "Percepción feminista del uso de body positive en la femvertising: sicurezza swimwear 2020." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/655967.
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El presente estudio analiza la percepción de activistas feministas sobre el empleo del body positive como herramienta de femvertising para el lanzamiento de Sicurezza swimwear 2020. Se empleó metodología cualitativa, paradigma naturalista y diseño de estudio de caso. Se analizó la campaña del lanzamiento de la línea swimwear 2020 de Sicurezza, la cual empleó el movimiento de body positive en la campaña posteada en su plataforma de Instagram. Se entrevistaron a 8 activistas feministas quienes contribuyen al movimiento en Perú a través de poesías, libros y redes sociales. Algunas de ellas pertenecen a un colectivo en particular, mientras que otras involucran el feminismo en su labor como catedráticas. Como resultado, la femvertising es percibida de buena manera por las entrevistadas, quienes manifestaron que dicha tendencia puede contribuir al movimiento siempre que las marcas que la empleen, mantengan coherencia con sus políticas empresariales. Asimismo, la marca Sicurezza también fue calificada favorablemente.This study analizes the perception of feminist activists about the employment of the body positive concept as a tool of the femvertising for the launching of the Sicurezza swimwear collection of 2020. This is a study with qualitative methodology, naturalistic paradigm and a case study design. We analyzed the campaign of the launching of the Sicurezza swimwear collection of 2020, which used the body positive concept por their campaign posted on their Instagram platform. We interviewed 8 feminist activists who contribute to the movement in Peru thru poetry, books and social media. Some of them are part of a group, while others involve feminism as part of their job as professors. As a result, the femvertising trend is perceived in a good way by the interviewed, who manifested that the trend could contribute to the movement as long as the brands that use it, stay consistent with their politics. Also, Sicurezza was positively rated.
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Dean, Kimberly Michelle. "Simulacra Of The (un)real: Reading Margaret Atwood’s Lady Oracle As A Feminist Text Of Bodily Resistance." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2018. https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/883.
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This thesis project is centered on the female body, specifically body image, in relation to Western, cultural images of women. This is a problem that has been around, essentially, since the beginning of Western art. While different scholars argue whether or not this problem has become worse, it is nonetheless problematic that we are still, in 2018, fighting patriarchy’s control of our bodies via body image. Grounding my project in Susan Bordo’s 1993 text Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body, this thesis explores Bordo’s argument that the female body is culturally produced through the lens of Jean Baudrillard’s theory of simulation and simulacra. Reading Bordo via Baudrillard allows us to explore this age-old problem at a new angle, giving us new reasons that explain why we are still stuck in patriarchy’s chains.
Through this lens, I demonstrate how and why Third-wave feminist activism (I focus specifically on the Body Positive Movement) is failing in their attempts to reclaim the female body: the issue lies within Third-wave activism’s desire to portray othered bodies as beautiful and desirable. This becomes problematic in the era of simulacra: abject bodies do not resemble the (un)real ideal so they become “unreal” in the eyes of society. This attempt to represent abject bodies (obese, racialized, trans, disabled) as beautiful results in stigmatization and disgust towards said bodies, and thus the Body Positive Movement leaves out abject bodies because these abject bodies cannot be seen as beautiful in a society that deems them unreal. I argue that in order to reclaim the female body, we must first reclaim the mind side of the mind/body dualism before we can successfully reclaim our bodies.
To demonstrate how this is possible, I use Margaret Atwood’s novel Lady Oracle as a case study that not only shows how the female body is culturally produced in the era of simulacra, but also allows us to see how reclaiming the mind side of the binary does allow the protagonist, Joan, to reclaim her past and body as her own, without shame. It is through fiction that reality is represented, and I conclude my thesis with my own personal anecdotes, showing how resistance via fiction can transcend into real life and point to a new, hopeful future.
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Lindström, Jorunn, and Emilia Mancuso. "“Confidence for every body”? : En studie av kvinnors mottagande av två kroppspositiva reklamfilmer från KappAhl och Lindex." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Medier och kommunikation, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-414964.
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In light of the recent trend of body positive advertisements, the question arises if they are having the positive outcome intended. The purpose of this study is to investigate how women create meaning in relation to two recently launched body positive commercials from KappAhl and Lindex. This is explored through studying how women experience and assess the selected ads, how they perceive body positive advertisements more generally, and how they experience their potential to change the perception of the ideal body in society. The primary material consisted of semi-structured interviews which were analyzed through Schrøder’s multidimensional model of media reception, objectification theory and commodity feminism. The main results showed that the reception of the body positive message is complex. Overall, the women had a predominantly positive attitude towards both the ads and body positive messages in general. Regarding the advertisements, the main critique concerned the authenticity of the message, where the women emphasized the importance of genuine and realistic portrayals of both the models and the scenarios in the ads. Body positive messages were generally perceived as creating identification and representation of diversity, as well as broadening the view of what is normal. A recurrent critique was that companies are exploiting a trend which led to the women questioning the companies’ intentions. Concerning the potential to change the perception of the ideal body, the conclusion is that it would be possible through long term exposure and more companies contributing to the change. This research provides insights regarding how distancing women from the negative effects of the thin ideal can contribute to strengthening their prosperity and empowering them.
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Szmigielska, Emilia. "Our bodies : a mixed methods study of an internet-based body image intervention using feminist theory to enhance positive body image." Thesis, City, University of London, 2018. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/21140/.
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Aims: The aim of the current study is to investigate the usefulness of an internet based positive body image intervention for women which incorporates feminist ideas and media literacy. This novel study will be an initial trial with a non-clinical population of women looking to learn about body image in order to evaluate if it is feasible as an intervention to improve body image in this format. Methods: The present study employed a sequential mixed methods prepost within groups online intervention outcomes study design, whereby quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis were sequentially undertaken. Phase 1: collected baseline questionnaire data online to screen for eligible participants (N=95), and then measure their level of body dissatisfaction, body appreciation and body anxiety. After 24 hours, Phase 2 commenced: participants received a link to an online psycho-educational intervention (an educational programme of 60-minutes duration), after which they immediately completed (N=80, drop out rate 15.79%) post-intervention questionnaire measures. In Phase 3: semi structured follow-up interviews were conducted with a subsample of the intervention participants (N=4) to gather their feedback on the strengths and limitations of the online intervention. Results: Paired t-test results comparing pre and post scores on the three main measures showed a significant decrease in scores on a body dissatisfaction measure, PFRS (t(79)=9.554, p < .001); a significant increase on a body appreciation measure, BAS (t(79)=-11.464, p < .001); and a significant decrease on a body anxiety measure, SPAS (t(79)= 8.833, p < .001). The thematic analysis of the semi-structured interviews showed four 13 emergent themes: focus on girls and teenagers, media influence and literacy, positive impacts of the intervention, and recommendations. Overall feedback was positive and participants found the intervention insightful and empowering. Conclusions: Collectively, the quantitative and qualitative findings supported each other regarding the development of a novel intervention. The ‘Our Bodies’ Programme appeared to have a positive impact on women’s body image and it was acceptable in the format in which it was presented. However, the study did not include a control group or a follow-up, thus care needs to be taken when drawing conclusions from the results. Nevertheless, this research has the potential to contribute to the understanding of which population may be best suited for this programme, delivery format and dissemination strategies using the existing literature on media literacy, positive body image and feminist theories in order to ensure maximum impact. Future directions and implications for Counselling Psychology practice are discussed.
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Rocha, Claudia Burlamaqui Lima da. "Body positive & Instagram: Performances online do corpo feminino." Master's thesis, 2021. https://hdl.handle.net/10216/137772.
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Gómez, María Luz, Lucía Simioni, and Noelia Andrea Traktman. "Hasta transformarlo todo Ciberactivismo en Instagram Estudio de casos." Bachelor's thesis, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11086/18263.
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Trabajo Final para optar al grado académico de Licenciatura en Comunicación Social, Universidad Nacional de CórdobaEn el presente Trabajo Final de Grado, abordamos el tema de los ciberactivismos en la red social Instagram. Profundizamos en las configuraciones discursivas que expresan estas nuevas formas de activismo digital, en tanto que expresión política contemporánea. En la actualidad, las redes sociales resultan un espacio de expansión, crecimiento y circulación de nuevas prácticas comunicativas y discursivas de carácter político y este trabajo indaga en torno al despliegue del ciberactivismo en esta plataforma. Damos cuenta de ciertas particularidades que adquieren perfiles de instagramers que devienen sujetos políticos referentes de causas y movimientos emergentes. El trabajo recibe los aportes del pensamiento teórico de los Estudios Mediales y de las discusiones en torno a la tensión que surge en el entramado de ciberculturas, nuevas subjetividades y activismo político en época de redes sociales. Metodológicamente trabajamos a partir de una exploración y reconocimiento del campo y luego desde la perspectiva sociosemiótica, ya que mediante el análisis discursivo se indaga en torno a posibilidades enunciativas, consolidación de destinatarios y entidades, siendo los componentes de la hegemonía, una entrada central y operativa para dicho análisis. Las materias significantes abordadas pertenecen a las cuentas de @brenda.mato, @nutriloca y @sol_despeinada y refieren a causas tales como: body positive, veganismo-antiespecismo y feminismo. Dada la novedad del fenómeno analizado y los escasos antecedentes metodológicos de análisis discursivo en la red social Instagram, este abordaje resulta un desafío importante que permite la exploración de este espacio y momento del discurso social contemporáneo.
Fil: Gómez, María Luz. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias de la Comunicación; Argentina.
Fil: Simioni, Lucía. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias de la Comunicación; Argentina.
Fil: Traktman, Noelia Andrea. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias de la Comunicación; Argentina.
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Stasko, Carly. "A Pedagogy of Holistic Media Literacy: Reflections on Culture Jamming as Transformative Learning and Healing." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/18109.
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This qualitative study uses narrative inquiry (Connelly & Clandinin, 1988, 1990, 2001) and self-study to investigate ways to further understand and facilitate the integration of holistic philosophies of education with media literacy pedagogies. As founder and director of the Youth Media Literacy Project and a self-titled Imagitator (one who agitates imagination), I have spent over 10 years teaching media literacy in various high schools, universities, and community centres across North America. This study will focus on my own personal practical knowledge (Connelly & Clandinin, 1982) as a culture jammer, educator and cancer survivor to illustrate my original vision of a ‘holistic media literacy pedagogy’. This research reflects on the emergence and impact of holistic media literacy in my personal and professional life and also draws from relevant interdisciplinary literature to challenge and synthesize current insights and theories of media literacy, holistic education and culture jamming.
Books on the topic "Body-positive feminism"
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Irshai, Ronit. Judaism. Edited by Adrian Thatcher. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199664153.013.022.
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This article examines the hitherto unquestioned consensus in Judaic studies that Judaism embraces a positive attitude towards sexuality. Grounded in the new scholarly trends of cultural and gender analysis as well as feminist critique and their impact on Jewish studies, it singles out four focal issues: sexuality in ancient rabbinic thought, to which the most scholarly attention has been directed; and issues in modern Halakhah that have just begun to inform scholarly research: the ethos of modesty and the construction of the female body; homosexuality and lesbianism; and reproduction and sexuality. The discussion reflects the tension between these two scholarly trends, and between the conceptual-theological stratum of Judaism and its reflection in the practical-legal sphere of Jewish law (Halakhah). This examination of Jewish attitudes towards sexuality, in light of the new scholarship, leads to the conclusion that although Judaism affirms sexuality, this cannot be grasped in a simple, superficial, or monolithic fashion.
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Bill, Stanley. Czesław Miłosz's Faith in the Flesh. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192844392.001.0001.
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This book presents Czesław Miłosz’s poetic philosophy of the body as an original defense of religious faith, transcendence, and the value of the human individual against what he viewed as dangerous modern forms of materialism. The Polish Nobel laureate saw the reductive “biologization” of human life as a root cause of the historical tragedies he had witnessed under Nazi German and Soviet regimes in twentieth-century Central and Eastern Europe. The book argues that his response was not merely to reconstitute spiritual or ideal forms of human identity, which no longer seemed entirely plausible. Instead, he aimed to revalidate the flesh, elaborating his own non-reductive understandings of the self on the basis of the body’s deeper meanings. Within the framework of a hesitant Christian faith, Miłosz’s poetry and prose often suggest a paradoxical striving toward transcendence precisely through sensual experience. Yet his perspectives on bodily existence are not exclusively affirmative. The book traces his diverse representations of the body from dualist visions that demonize the flesh through to positive images of the body as the source of religious experience, the self, and the poet’s own creative faculty. It also examines the complex relations between “masculine” and “feminine” bodies and forms of subjectivity, as Miłosz represents them. Finally, it elucidates his contention that poetry is the best vehicle for conveying these contradictions, because it also combines “disembodied,” symbolic meanings with the sensual meanings of sound and rhythm. For Miłosz, the double nature of poetic meaning reflects the fused duality of the human self.
Book chapters on the topic "Body-positive feminism"
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Murnen, Sarah K., and Linda Smolak. "Negotiating Gender Roles to Enact Body Appreciation and Positive Embodiment." In Handbook of Positive Body Image and Embodiment, edited by Tracy L. Tylka and Niva Piran, 161–72. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med-psych/9780190841874.003.0016.
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In American culture, men experience greater body appreciation and less body dissatisfaction than women. To help explain these findings, this chapter examines theory and data concerning the relationship between gender role expectations and women’s and men’s embodiment. Data show that traditional feminine roles promote a focus on appearance and self-objectification that is negatively associated with body empowerment, while traditional masculine roles promote more functional body experiences associated with greater embodiment. This chapter discusses how gender roles can be changed to promote positive embodiment. According to social role theory, traditional gender roles result from, and help support, a gender unequal society. Feminism has led to some change in gender roles, but more change is needed, such as encouragement of caretaking among boys and men and instrumental traits and roles for girls and women. There is also the need to render people less vulnerable to body image pressures, supporting body empowerment during development.
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Trachtenberg, Lianne. "Resisting Restrictive Feminine Molds and Promoting Embodied Well-Being Among Breast Cancer Survivors." In Handbook of Positive Body Image and Embodiment, edited by Tracy L. Tylka, Niva Piran, and Niva Piran, 173–80. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med-psych/9780190841874.003.0017.
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This chapter explores the resistance to restrictive feminine molds as a protective factor that facilitates positive embodiment among young breast cancer survivors. The chapter reviews the empirical evidence on cancer survivors’ gendered lived experience in the body and the role of restrictive feminine molds on cultivating experiences of (dis)embodiment. A novel mixed-method research program is discussed that examined whether the internalization of values that counteract feminine molds among breast cancer survivors, utilizing the Experience of Embodiment Scale, predicted embodied well-being. The program also considered women`s reflections about their values and beliefs, cultural heteronormative ideas of attractiveness, and role demands on women`s connection to their post–medically treated bodies. The chapter concludes with suggested intervention strategies that aim at fostering resistance to restrictive feminine molds and, through that, enhancing the quality of embodied lives among women entering the survivorship stage of their breast cancer journey.
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"Feminist and Social Justice–Informed Approaches Toward the Enhancement of Positive Embodiment." In Handbook of Positive Body Image and Embodiment, edited by Tracy L. Tylka, Niva Piran, and Niva Piran, 385–96. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med-psych/9780190841874.003.0036.
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While feminist and social justice perspectives suggest that positive body-anchored experiences are centrally linked to social equity and power, this lens has not been widely embraced within the body image and eating disorders fields. Key elements in feminist- and social justice–informed health promotion approaches to positive embodiment relate to the (a) goals, (b) content, (c) process, and (d) assessment of health promotion interventions. The chapter discusses each of these four key dimensions and related interventions in the field of body image and embodiment. Such approaches can target varied social domains and institutions, all the way from widely disseminated values and laws to specific interventions with schools and families. Further, they can enrich the fields of body image and eating disorders by informing etiological theories of embodied well-being and distress and health promotion initiatives.
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Lamb, Sharon, and Julie Koven. "Adolescent Female Desire." In Handbook of Positive Body Image and Embodiment, edited by Tracy L. Tylka and Niva Piran, 129–38. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med-psych/9780190841874.003.0013.
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The development of healthy female sexuality is a complex and multidimensional process. In understanding female adolescent sexual development, we must understand both the suppression and the celebration of female desire in its historical and structural contexts. Feminist theorists have long studied the suppression of desire and connected that desire to both subjectivity and agency. However, desire remains an elusive concept. This chapter reviews the history of desire and sexual freedom, looks at three historical and institutional influences over adolescent sexual desire (gender inequality, education, and the media), and then interrogates the idea of sexual agency to understand how adolescents and young women conceive of sexual agency today in a neoliberal context. The chapter ends with suggestions for practice, education, and activism to help promote healthier female sexual development.
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Pike, David L. "Feminist Bunker Fantasies." In Cold War Space and Culture in the 1960s and 1980s, 219–62. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192846167.003.0010.
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Feminist science fiction emerged during the late 1970s as a creative and political force, with the nuclear condition as a core element of this new form and its new approach to science fiction. Despite the full awareness and acknowledgment of the horrors underpinning the postapocalyptic world, this body of work as a whole is hopeful and open to the future in ways that most other 1980s bunker fantasies were not. These are not only survivors’ songs, in other words; they are critical engagements with the complexity of historical change that refunctioned the spaces of the Cold War into new configurations. One of the primary, and often the only, positively bunkered spaces in the texts themselves during this period were the analogous forms of language, storytelling, words, and writing. While the positive, enabling bunker potentials of language—and the stultifying effects of its loss—remain a constant theme through this period, the changing representations of physical spaces in relation to language fall into roughly three periods, analogous to political changes in the cultural perception of nuclear threat. The sheltering power of language remains a constant throughout, as do the spatial association of the fallout shelter with masculine social structures and the nuclear condition, along with the central problematic of reproduction and reproductive futurism in relation to survival in a post-holocaust world; however, writers’ treatment of these themes changes.
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Newman, Daniel Aureliano. "‘Tampering with the Expected Sequence’: Heterochrony and Sex Change in Orlando." In Modernist Life Histories, 108–33. Edinburgh University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474439619.003.0005.
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This chapter reads the fantastical sex-change and longevity in Woolf’s Orlando in relation to contemporary experiments on the genetic and developmental determination of sex, notably the concept of heterochrony. The chapter argues that Orlando’s transformation from man to woman should be read literally, as a metamorphic change in the protagonist’s body; the embodied nature and the specific manifestations of the metamorphosis are designed to counter the recapitulatory plot that inheres in sexological discourses of the day. The corporeality of the Orlando’s development is rarely acknowledged in queer and feminist studies, which tend to emphasise gender and performance at the expense of sex and embodiment. By linking Woolf’s novel to contemporary biology, I complicate this common view and provide a positive alternative to the correlative argument that Orlando’s sex change amounts to a mere wish-fulfillment fantasy.