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Bolivia and Women as Vessels of Cultural Authenticity
Tonight, my flight leaves for Bolivia at 8:30. I´m excited for the visit because my money will go farther there, and because it will be the first country that I´ve ever been to which has a thriving indigenous culture. It´s a culture that I don´t know much about, so I´ve been trying to do some [...]
Posted: July 8th, 2007 under 18th century, Aramayá, Barbie, Bolivia, Bolivian, Female Sexuality, La Paz, Miss Bolivia, Quillacollo, Robert Albro, Western, anthropology, bourgeoisie, chola, cholita, colonialism, culture, designer jeans, dress, empire, empowerment, fashion, femininity, gender, globalization, historical actor, identity, image, indigenous culture, market seller, objectification, oppression, politics, pop culture, popular woman, resistance, root metaphor, spanish king, standard of beauty, traditional dress, viceroy toledo, woman.
Tags: Aymara
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I, Fembot: the Object and Subject revisited
Sit back and grab a drink, because this might be a long haul. You’re back! Sweet. Here goes: a good friend recently brought up self-objectification in a frank conversation about sex. “Really, I don’t see what’s wrong with it,” she said, “I like feeling sexy.” I listened to her argument, but I remain skeptical that [...]
Posted: June 3rd, 2007 under Barbara Stanwyck, Barbie, Equal Pay Act, Female Sexuality, I'm in love with a stripper, Lady of Burlesque, National Committee On Pay Equity, PTSD, Perfect Gentleman, Pornography, Renegade Evolution, Self Objectification, Sex Roles, T-Pain, Wyclef Jean, agency, black women, blogging, boyfriend, cartoon, depression, empowerment, expatriate, feminism, fucking, hispanic women, jean, objectification, porn, posttraumatic stress disorder, power, psychology, renegade, self, self image, sex, sex object, sex work, sexual advance, sexual harassment, sexual inequality, sexual pleasure, stripper, stripping, violence, violence against women, wage gap, wyclef.
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8 Year Old Held For Mutilation, Burial of Barbie Doll
When I was a little kid, I had a love- hate relationship with Barbie, and in one of our relationship’s lower moments, I cut her hair off. Turns out that almost everyone loves to hate Ms. Perfect, at least according to this article from the Onion from nearly a decade ago. It’s okay – it’s [...]
Posted: May 18th, 2007 under Barbie, Blondes, Female Sexuality, Sex Roles, abuse, adolescence, agency, bodies, doll, doll experiments, hate, love, mental health, mutilation, psychology, self image, symbolism.
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thin women:strong men as object:subject?
In this article, “Thin, Sexy Women and Strong, Muscular Men” published in the November 2003 issue of Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, Sarah K. Murnen and her colleagues discuss the effects of rising discrepancies between images of women presented by the media and the size body of the average American woman. Body dissatisfaction is [...]
Posted: May 4th, 2007 under Barbie, Brody Jenner, CosmoGirl, Female Sexuality, Full-Figuring, Guerilla Girls, Ken, Kenneth B Clark, Kiri Davis, Misogyny, Murnen, Nicole Richie, Sarah K, Self Objectification, Sex Roles, doll, doll experiments, exploitation, human dignity, objectification, racism, stigmatization, theory.
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