A recent magazine article on Girls Aloud proclaimed
to "reveal their beauty secrets". But, Michelle Wright argues, all it
really did was expose the effects of subscribing to patriarchal, capitalist
beauty standards on women's self-esteem
Michelle
Wright // 3 June 2007
Categories:
Body and
Health, Culture
and Media, Fashion
and Image
These days women can be successful in
the workplace, but they're never allowed to forget what really matters: how
sexually attractive they are to men. Marianne Cupit asks: are women still being
judged on their appearance when it comes to their chosen career?
Marianne Cupit // 1 February 2007
Categories: Fashion
and Image
Is masculinity simply
"natural" or - like femininity - is it essentially performance? Holly
Combe addresses this question and more as she reports on her first time at a
Drag King workshop, and shares the results with The F-Word
Holly Combe // 1 August 2005
Categories: Fashion
and Image, Men
Why is it assumed that all women want
to emulate celebrities? Against the suffocating celebrity-worship culture,
Nicky Raynor argues in favour of glorious anonymity, individuality, and a
greater variety of female role models.
Nicky Raynor // 5 November 2004
Categories: Culture
and Media, Fashion
and Image
Kate Allen looks at women's magazines
today - and thinks enough is enough.
Kate Allen // 16 August 2002
Categories: Culture
and Media, Fashion
and Image
You are using the F Word here - a feminist blog. Can you comment on these opinions using references to some of the theories we have discussed in class, for example, in the women's magazines class?
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