This is a chapter from her book The Male Body. This chapter explains her thoughts on the use of the male body in advertising. Bordo explains how and why she first got interested in looking for new advertisements of males in magazines. Bordo explicitly depicts her thoughts on how people look at the male body, how it was used in advertising, movies, and our culture overall. She also goes into how over time the use of male bodies has changed in our culture. Bordo uses a lot of pictures and actual
“Beauty (Re) Discovers the Male Body” response In “Beauty (Re) Discovers the Male Body” by Susan Bordo, Bordo writes an analysis on the male body in advertising. Bordo discusses how in the society of advertising and fashion the male body isn’t really seen as a symbol of arousal compared to the female body. She continues saying how the naked or half-naked female body is seen as “an object of mainstream consumption” (p.299), while the male boy is just beginning to be a “commercial representation”
recreated or reproduced. Berger points out that the woman’s body portrayed by different people has changed over time, for instance, in early 1500-1900, visual art was characterized by oil painting and after 1900s photography came in place and became the main medium of visual art. Susan Bordo in "Beauty (Re) Discovers the Male Body," focuses on nudity. This was in her times the trending subject although it is not seen in our current times where male nudity is found almost instantaneously. In her times,
3. Write a detailed analysis of ANY ONE ballad OR love poem in the Norton Anthology of Poetry drawing on a comparative discussion of ANY TWO essays in the Norton Anthology of Theory & Criticism to illuminate your argument. Many love poems are not actually about love; rather they are the objectification of a woman into a vessel for desire. John Donne’s poem ‘To His Mistress Going to Bed’1 appears on the surface to be a poem celebrating the beauty of the female body and the joys of sex. However