During the time that the lai was written, there was a drastic change in courtly women’s attire, as tighter more revealing clothing became in favor over more modest clothing. This is documented in the article “Estreitement Bende: Marie de France’s Guigemar and the Erotics of Tight Dress,” by Nicole Smith, where she explores how Marie uses dress to enforce controlled sexuality. In the article Smith explains that “garments that were once expansive and flowing came to be tightly fitted across the body with belts, knots, and laces” (96). This dress style “became the emblematic of a fashion-savvy noblewoman in the art and literature of the high Middle Ages” (Smith 96). This came into…
In this period, people began to have open-minded on women’s dresses. When women dressed up, they were likely to mix with jacket or sweaters to demonstrated the layer of the outfit. Women in this period felt more comfortable than before because the waistline dropped to natural…
The article, “Pants Up in the Air: Breaking Bad and American Hegemonic Masculinity Reconsidered” by Iren Annus, attempts to offer a critical perspective of white masculine privilege in America with comments on its prominence in history, its continuity, and its modern state as discussed through the example of Walter White with consideration of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The main case she makes is that Walter White, from the TV series Breaking Bad, is representative of the evolving patriarchal ideas consistent with the post 9/11 reshaping of normative masculine notions. Her argument is based on several logical cases that offer insight into deviations from what traditional notions of hegemonic masculinity for providing a detailed complex overview…
On March 25, 1911, a notoriously dangerous fire broke out in the Asch Building of the Triangle Waist Company causing great destruction and many lost lives. As stated in “Eyewitness at the Triangle,” I heard screams around the corner and hurried there. What I had seen before was not so terrible as what had followed. Up in the [ninth] floor girls were burning to death before our very eyes.” In such a short period of time, all the hard labor people did during their period of work went to waste as it was all in flames.…
Cheryl even said that a woman should have a waist that is smaller than 35 inches. "I kind of rolled my eyes." Model @theashleygraham responds to Cheryl Tiegs' criticism: https://t.co/W7NDp9anQK pic.twitter.com/ACpXVt6IjC — Good Morning America (@GMA) March 3, 2016 Cheryl Tiegs didn't stop…
Simiranjot Singh Real Women Have Curves Analysis In class we watched the movie, Real Women Have Curves, and it was a very interesting and moving film. It was heartbreaking to see how Ana’s family and others judged her about her weight. Towards the end of the movie, she realizes that her weight doesn’t define who she is, rather her actions make her who she is. I will be discussing some of the interpersonal communication behaviors in, Real Women Have Curves.…
Electronic ankle bracelets have become a popular and cost efficient way of keeping defendants in custody. A burden on taxpayers, overcrowding in our prison systems has become a major concern for the criminal justice system. House arrest is a great strategy to keep the inmate population down and allowing offenders options at maintaining unemployment and continuing their education where applicable. Electronic ankle bracelets are frequently used for community corrections efforts. One type of device is used in conjunction with a radio frequency base unit that is connected to a traditional telephone line.…
A Deliberation on Borders External and internal limitations surround us at every moment in our lives; hence, borders such as the color of our skin, geographical borders, and culture are hard to escape from. It is solely up to an individual to establish how they intend to deal with their borders, if at all. This was no different for both Gualinto, from George Washington Gomez, and Henry, from Zoot Suit. They both struggled with, a psychological border, the awareness that they came from two distinct cultures and therefore found themselves caught in the middle and being judged upon. Due to their Mexican legacy, culture, and the geographical area in which they lived, both Gualinto and Henry encountered some form of discrimination and mental anguish…
In the opening line the author witnesses materialism that is targeted at the youngest segment of our society. “Just past the bin of pastel baby socks and underwear / There are some 49-dollar Chinese-made TVs (Hoagland 1-2)” The first line gives us a vast look into the beginning of the cycle that is to take place. This bin filled with baby socks and underwear ranging in various colors helps us to color code our children to their specific gender. Even in our infancy we are targeted for our futures as consumers.…
In the film Real Women Have Curves, which is a coming of age story, the main conflict was between a daughter, Ana, and her mother, Carmen. The mother and daughter cannot get along because of their age and traditional differences. Ana’s mother was old fashioned and wanted her daughter to graduate highschool, lose weight, join the family in their dressmaking business, and find a husband. Ana did not want her life to be this way and wanted to go to college and be and educated women who finds true love and not just a man willing to marry her. Carmen justifies her behaviors by saying she does not want her daughter to go to college because she did not want her family to be spilt up and it was Ana’s duty to her family to work in the factory and help…
Abdominal Adhesions are imperative since they are a typical reason for stomach indications, especially stomach torment and they can cause gut blockages or impediment. The term adhesion alludes to the development of scar tissue between inside circles and the inward coating of the stomach divider or with different organs inside the stomach cavity. Adhesions form when irritation happens on the surface of the stomach organs or the peritoneal coating of the stomach pit; the arrangement of scar tissue is an ordinary piece of recuperating when there is aggravation (Marks, M. J.). The reason for the aggravation can differ impressively.…
Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber’s “The Spread of the Cult of Thinness” is a chapter from her book The Cult of Thinness that was published in 2007. She is a professor of sociology at Boston College and directed its Women’s Studies program. She is also the director of the National Association for Women in Catholic Higher Education. The author is trying to figure out why eating disorders are common among women. Her purpose for writing this is to explain connections that she sees between ritualized behaviors and the obsession with the impossible ideal both in cults and in eating disorders.…
An Amorous Intrusion The fear of people and ideals foreign to what we know often results in a detrimental division. “The Smallest Woman in the World”, a short story written by Clarice Lispector, follows a European explorer on an expedition through the Congo. He comes across the smallest woman in the world, who he names Little Flower. A striking image of Little Flower soon spreads across the globe.…
Plus-Size Fashion, Fatness, and Disability In the search for my own liberation as someone who identifies as fat, I find that fat empowerment ideals that are reliant on aesthetic beauty fail to account for the diversity and complexity of the bodies, opinions, and preferences of fat people. Empowerment for the fat community is overwhelmingly entrenched in fashion and beauty. Despite the important discourse put forth by fat women in particular that challenges societal norms—such as the unapologetic reclamation of the F word, fat—empowerment through beauty alone stops the body positivity movement short of all that it could challenge and limits our ability to imagine new avenues of empowerment that problematize not only the west’s fixation on beauty,…
Her waist looks drastically smaller than her hips, the perfect hourglass. Unfortunately, there are drawbacks to this method. If worn too tightly, the trainers could actually displace one’s organs and lead to lung and intestinal problems. Done right, however, waist training isn’t necessarily bad. I actually have a waist trainer myself, but I only use it when I work out because it causes me to sweat more in my waist area, which makes my stomach appear smaller and flatter.…