...In hip hop women are constantly being judged based off their looks, and what kind of body they have. They are often exploited in hip hop artists (mostly male) music videos just to shake their big butts in a tiny bikini fully exposed. Sometimes it seems that males treat these woman like objects instead of human beings. Nowadays it’s considered the norm for these girls to dance around basically naked which is unfortunate, but what’s even worse is that some of these women are completely okay with doing this just to get their names out there for possible jobs in the future. It’s not only music videos that exploit these women, it even started back in the day when hip hop was started to get into the gangsta rap phase. The movie “Boyz In The Hood” is a perfect example of women’s bodies were exploited in hip hop culture. Also Rivera’s article Butta Pecan Mamis is another great article explaining the exploitation of women’s body through hip hop. In the movie “Boyz in the Hood” women and their bodies were exploited during a lot of parts in the movie. Doughboy who was played by Ice Cube was one of the main people to exploit women and their bodies. When he just got out of jail his mother threw him a welcome back party and everyone in the neighborhood was there. All of the guys would be on one side and the girls on the other, but the men would talk about them saying what they would do to them if they had the chance. Or who gets more “bitches” than the other as if they are not people...
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...During the turn of the 19th century, Toronto became part of the industrialization and urbanization phase. With that came the migration of single women to the city, women who left their small towns in order to find paid jobs in the city of Toronto. These were young single women who broke free from the unpaid working women of the past, although their freedom to work came with a price. While these young working girls were trying to make into the world, many discouraged such notions of working in the city factories and shops due to the idea that these women would jepordize their shift into a housewife or motherhood. This idea was known as the girl problem, a delimma that needed to be dealt with because of the cross between exploiting women for cheap labor or creating women who would be healthy, respectable mothers someday. While these women worked to stay alive, they were given low wages, while men who worked were paid much higher. Their freedom as working women who spent their time working during the day and shopping and entertaining themselves was looked upon as suspicious. Due to suspicions of women working, the police developed a way of monitoring what women did in the public sphere. Also an oganizaiton known as YWCA became over-seerers of women, they began to deecide wh was a retspectable women or who was a deviant in society. Many of these women just wanted to have the same freedoms that a single man might have, they face discrimintation in the workplace and were serverly...
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...Chapter 4 “Men sexual activity is assumed and accepted; after all, “Boys will be boys.” Girls may easily get a “bad reputation” and be condemned as “sluts”.” (Women’s Sexuality pg. 175) This is so true in the society in which I grew up in. I talked about it in my paper where my brother and I were raised different. In high school my brother had his high school girlfriend living with my mom where she had a baby when they were still in school; yet, when I was grown living in my mother house where I already had a child I could not have my child father stay the night with me and sleep in the same bed. I thought this was a double standard not only in my house but also in my community. Another thing I hear all the time is when a female get pregnant at an early age she is called names; however, men are looked at totally different in this situation. For example my mother had got pregnant with me when she was sixteen. My mother and my father attended the same school where they both received different responses from their peers. My mom was looked at as fast and all the males wanted her because they thought she could be used as a sexual being in their eyes. Yet, my father was praised by the males and females. The females thought he was so manly and now most girls wanted to date him. I feel this is ridiculous because they were both young and irresponsible but, my mom had taken all the blame for being pregnant at an early age. This is very upsetting to know that we have not come too far...
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...Johnathan Anthony Dr. Burnsteel English 015 October 10, 2010 Sex in Advertising: The Dehumanization of a Women’s body for Gratuity in Return Throughout the years, the entertainment and marketing industries have drastically progressed because of females exploiting and advertising their bodies to mentally seduce consumers (generally men) so products will be brought repeatedly. In a 2008 article by Heather Price entitled, “Sex in Advertising: An Organic Experience” sixty-five percent of print ads during that year were women being shown with their mouths open. This automatically captures the attention of men consumers, which as a result puts a stupendous amount of money in the advertising companies’ pocket. It’s awfully unethical for women to expose their body in such a prominent way, and have their self-respect and dignity taken away from them because of the money and wealth they can obtain as a result from this. Although the advertisement industry has been extremely successful with their sex selling commercials and ad campaigns, women need to take more initiative in showing less skin and focus the attention on what a consumer thinks rather than there emotion or what they feel. The most recognized and infamous phrase “Sex Sells” has built up a reputation across the world and also the entertainment industry. The most popular and favorable consumer products in America have no audience without the promotional side to it. In their scholarly article...
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...child’s moral character, values and ethics, and their overall mental, physical and spiritual development. Child beauty pageants go against that parental code by teaching that self-worth is in appearance, creating negative behavioral and emotional issues, as well as, sexually exploiting children and therefore, should be banned. Self-worth To begin with, pageants teach that self-worth is in the physical appearance, instead of within. Self-worth is about the value you place on yourself through an internal connection. Beauty pageants take away from that in the essence that it puts a high value on beauty and perfection instead of character. Children are taught at a young age, that they are in competition with others and whoever is the most beautiful and have perfected talents, are winners and everyone else is losers. Along with that K. Meginnis-Payne & C. Travis (2001) , states “ In addition to promoting mixed messages about the role of beauty in women’s lives, beauty myths foster competition, divisiveness, and distrust among women. These myths undermine the collaborative, supportive relationships women create with one another. All beauty myths promote the idea that beauty is the most vital aspect of a women’s being.” Negative Behavioral and Emotional Issues Secondly, since a child can enroll in a pageant at the tender years of mind development and character building they are learning who to be and how to act, through the pageants rules, regulations, and environment. Pageantry...
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...would grow up and change the world because they did not even have the chance. Without question, abortion needs to be illegal because no one should have to live in a world where killing human beings is acceptable, no matter the circumstances. Abortion is prevalent throughout all races but most common for African Americans. The scenario above is a prime example of what many young, black females would do. In fact, “Some 1,784 African-American children are killed by abortion each day. Even though African American women only make up 12.6% of the population, they were apart of the nearly 30% of abortions that occurred in 2008 (Enouen).” Many people argue that abortions should be legal under various circumstances such as rape and women’s rights to their own body. Rape is terrible and victims do not want to be reminded of that experience even more than they are on a daily basis. A lot of people feel strongly that if a rape victim is pregnant, she should have the right to terminate the baby so that she does not have to live with a constant reminder of such a horrible time in her life. Rape is one of the...
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...about their health, well-being, and life choices. The dissertation primarily focuses on two questions within this topic: i) the effects of greater affordability of assisted reproductive technology (ART) on women's marriage and fertility timing decisions and ii) the effects of time spent working on individual's obesity and health status and the mechanisms contributing to these effects. In two chapters, I examine whether greater affordability of ART has impacted women's fertility and marriage choices. ART consists of medical technologies that help women and couples with fertility problems conceive a child using such methods as in-vitro fertilization (IVF). Since the percentage of women facing infertility increases greatly with age, by making it affordable for women to delay family formation and then use ART to start families later if they face infertility, greater affordability of ART could induce women to delay marriage and childbearing. To formally identify channels through which greater affordability of ART might impact women's decisions about timing of family, I develop theoretical models of greater affordability of ART and women's allocation of time on work and family investment over the life course. To test the implications of the models, I utilize empirical strategies exploiting variation in the mandated insurance coverage of ART across U.S. states and over time. In the first chapter, I use linear probability models and the 1977-2010 Current Population Survey to examine the likelihood...
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...This is due to a variety of causes, such as differences in education, differences in preferred job, differences in the types of positions held by men and women, differences in the type of jobs men “typically” go into as opposed to women, differences in amount of work experience, breaks in employment etc. The percentage of working women in Canada has increased from about 42% to almost 60% over the last 30 years. The most recent Statistics Canada data shows that the gender wage gap in Ontario is 26% for full–time, full–year workers. This means that for every $1.00 earned by a male worker, a female worker earns 74 cents. This could be due to the fact that the “traditional” women's work solely pays less than of the man’s work. But why is there a stigma out there that women are the lesser equal and that we deserve these lesser paying jobs? In the article “Why DO women earn less than men?” written by Mary Babic, is a conducted research based on gender segregation in low-wage workforce in the US. They defined “low-wage women” as large, growing, low-wage occupations with a majority of female workforce and median earnings below $15 an hour. The research makes it quite evident that female employees actually make less than men, and with the feminist movement we are trying to end...
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...Introduction Marketing a successful advertising campaign can be a difficult but even more so, risky task. The fact that marketing a product can have a negative or positive impact on consumers is crucial to the overall success of the product. This report will discuss two campaigns: Dove’s Campaign for Real Beauty that target women’s outer beauty, instilling self-confidence, versus AXE’s AXE Effect campaign that target young adult males while exploiting young adult women’s perception of beauty unrealistically. Dove and AXE products are owned by the same company Unilever. The report will analyze their complete opposite approach to their target market, and criticisms received from the media and consumers. The report will also offer recommendations to marketers that may lead to having a successful advertising campaign. FINDINGS Findings were made in the following areas: target market and criticisms. Target Market Dove products target women of all ethnicities, age, shape and size in hopes to define the true definition of beauty. Since 2004, Dove has used Campaign for Real Beauty ads along with the vision to “Imagine a World Where Beauty is a Source of Confidence not anxiety” (2014). Dove’s ad campaigns feature real women whose appearances are not the typical norm of how society defines beauty. These real women shown in their underwear are essentially making a statement of how society should perceive real beauty. Figure 1. Dove Real Beauty Campaign (Canada, 2013) ...
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...Globalization & Women Komal (4789) Ruchi (4875) Lavanya (4642) WHAT IS GLOBALIZATION? It is the process of creating languages, services, and products that apply not just to an individual neighbourhood or city or country, but to the whole world. While one interpretation of globalization has to do with equal exchange and sharing of goods and services between countries and cultures, the reality of a globalized world is much different. Globalization is a phenomenon that crosses and erases geographical and political borders and makes all countries start to look the same. As a result of globalization, local products, services, and cultures disappear into a global culture, a culture defined not by the global citizenry but rather the world's economic and political superpowers - mostly North America-owned corporations. How does economic globalization work? Economic globalization is fueled by international trade agreements signed between nations. The goal of these agreements is to get rid of barriers to trade by allowing companies to move their factories to countries with the lowest labour and environmental standards, countries where they can produce their products the cheapest...
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...appearance. Increased exposure to the unrealistic beauty ideals of the media has detrimental psychological effects, including negative and distorted body image, low self-esteem and even eating disorders. The media intensifies distorted body images,...
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...the men in both texts try to confine women physically and emotionally through deception and force. The different portrayal of both male and female characters also plays a very important role in communicating these issues. Rossetti’s “Goblin Market” can be read as a criticism of Victorian arrangement of marriage. She stresses the importance of women’s friendship as the main agent that can help in fighting against or changing society’s exploitation of women. The two sisters represent two different kinds of women; Lizzie, the submissive ones and Laura, those that fought against patriarchy, and the goblins represent the patriarchal system. It shows that women can control their destinies, gain some level of independence, and avoid society’s oppressive rules and work towards their liberation and happiness. In the Victorians society men where more educated, powerful and rich hence they dominated women. Women were subjugated to the home as housewives whilst their husbands earned money for the family. This gave the men even more power over women, both before and after marriage. Therefore, this led to the society ignoring and exploiting of women's rights and abilities, and social status. The goblin men, full of promises not kept, dominate goblin Market, which symbolizes marriage. This clearly shows how men controlled the marriage arrangement. Women had no or little power in society to get what they want hence would...
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...Danielle Walker 20 October 2011 Hlavaty Argumentative Research Essay Exploitation in Beauty Pageants In 1920, the World War I ended and the women’s movement began to take off, marking the first year of the American beauty pageant formally known as The Miss America Pageant (“Child Beauty Pageants,” 2011). Women from all over the United States were given the opportunity to show their talent, superficial beauty and inner intelligence. Little did our country know that 40 years later, children as young as ten months old would be competing in these beauty pageants; since the tragic death of JonBenet Ramsey in 1996, child beauty pageants have become a topic of debate (“JonBenet Ramsby,” 2011). Ramsey’s death opened a new door to the skepticism of beauty pageants. The media began to see beauty pageants as a threat to children and their safety. Children were exposed to the world at a young age with a made-up face of inappropriate maturity. Destruction of a child’s self-esteem and attentiveness to appearance are major ploys that continue to grow, ploys of outstanding expenses, loss of educational concern and loss of innocence also remain. Strengthening the fact that beauty pageants are harmful to children who compete in them therefore, children under the age of ten should not be allowed to participate in beauty pageants. Children who are aspiring beauty queens tend to be pressured by their parents. According to the article titled, “The child beauty-pageant queens who grew up” (2008)...
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...INTRODUCTION This study is conducted to determine the physical image of women portrayed by Filipino beauty commercials. A feministic view of these commercials is applied in trying to show the ideal image they present which influences the decisions and perceptions of women. Specifically, the researchers are defining how it has shaped the outlook of women towards beauty with regards to the physical aspects. The methods used to achieve results were documentary analysis and interviews. Through interviews, the researchers were able to generate information based on perceptions of selected individuals with expertise on feminism and visual communication. The documentary analysis deals with the examination of sample commercials which are part of the research scope. CHAPTER I THE RESEARCH AND ITS BACKGROUND This chapter contains the background of the study with a short introduction of the whole research and the reasons why the researchers chose the topic. It also contains the specific problems of the study as well as the theoretical and conceptual frameworks which were the foundation of the research. The limitations and scope are also provided in this chapter. It also contains the significance of the study to different people affected by the research and the definition of terms as to how they were used in the study. BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY As people tend to watch television, we also tend to encounter the commercials that come along with watching. According to a study conducted...
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...Furthermore, mainstream media portrays women as sexual objects, or entities, specifically when they are required to bring sexual pleasure to their male counterparts through the way they look or act. Such media, therefore, is implying that women’s sole purpose is to bring men sexual gratification (Wright and Tokunaga 956). This increases the sexual objectification of women, specifically in magazines, television, and social media platforms, demonstrating...
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