Looking At Women Analysis

The author of “The Lessons for Woman” was Ban Zhao. From what I have read in this writing, it is telling us that she is a mother and she is concerned about humility in women. The way she is influences the story by the fact that she cares about humility in herself and the others in the story. She was writing as Ban Zhao as a Chinese scholar during the time of A.D. 45-120. The author was writing this piece under history and classical writing. The author’s purpose of this writing was to inform the women to better prepare them for the things that they may experience in Chinese culture. The reason that she wanted to inform them was so that she could make their husbands happy and please them. She wanted people to read her writing to take all the

Reading Response to “Looking at Women” written by Scott Russell Sanders is an article about Sanders

Ana Garcia, the protagonist of the film Real Women Have Curves, is a perfect example of the contemporary Latina in the United States. She is an ideal illustration of the intersectionality between race, culture, gender, and class. When deciding what she would do for her future, Ana had to choose between her cultural values and mainstream expectations, between her Mexican heritage and her American mindset. After deciding to continue her education at Columbia University, Ana holds a feminist conference aiming to bring more attention to gender and race-based discrimination within the workplace and the unrealistic beauty standards set forth by society for women. These two issues are particularly prevalent in the United States and have widespread effects, therefore Ana would primarily focus on them. Both issues are applicable to Ana herself and could very easily have negative repercussions on her own life.

In “Great Expectations”, Pat Mora makes the statement, “We often are too busy playing the game of Great Expectations”.(Mora,162) Oftentimes, a woman is put up with having the greatest of expectations from the outside appearance. When one thinks of “ideal” or “beautiful” the women that work at the restaurant, ‘Hooters’ may come to mind. Hooters is known to having attractive women serve food with form fitting clothes on. The slogan for the restaurant is, “At Hooters, you'll find craveable food and wings, cold beer, sports, and of course, Hooters Girls.” The women that work there are automatically stereotyped as proven in their slogan as being “Hooters girls”. When one thinks of women, they are often categorized into either skinny, fat,

These differences aren’t biological as some researchers lead us to believe, claiming that men are more sexually stimulated by images, making it natural for women to be gazed at. Bordo argues that our culture determines what if acceptable for “women learn to anticipate, even play to the sexualizing gaze…in the process we learn how sexy being gazed at can feel-perhaps precisely because it walks the fine edge of shame” (135). Yet, with the use of erotic male images and her clearly sexually reaction to them, Bordo pushes readers to question why there are differences in how men and women are viewed and view each other. Who decides what is acceptable?

Moving forward, Dyer begins to unpack the active/passive concept of images of models. Often male models are caught in the act doing hegemonically masculine things such as: baseball, mowing the lawn, grilling, painting, etc. When not caught in the act, the male model contorts his body in a way that shows off his muscles and emphasizes the potential for action. In contrast, women never do an action. They’re always sitting on a stool waiting for people to look at her. To look is to be active and to be looked at is to be passive. Men must remove any sense of passivity in their pose and look to continue to uphold their masculine identities.

Everyday people stare at billboards, magazine covers, movies, television, or pictures on the Internet of someone or something that they classify as beautiful. Some things people glance over and other things fascinate them. For example, when Farrah Fawcett’s famous picture of her in her red bathing suit came out; many teenage boys hung that picture in their bedrooms. Their idea of Farrah’s beauty was based strictly her outward appearance.

The movie Real Women Have Curves, directed by Patricia Cardoso, is based on the play of the same name, written by Josefina Lopez. The story was written in 1996, whereas the movie was released six years later by HBO Films in 2002. Both the book and the film portray the difficulty of a young liberated woman who is struggling to grow beyond her Mexican traditional upbringing and to find her own way within a modern world by pursuing a college education. The difference between the two versions is in the portrayal of Carmen, Ana’s mother, and the degree to which she is an obstacle to Ana’s pursuit of a college education. Within the film, the mother is a caricature of a Mexican woman whose unyielding traditional beliefs are the only obstacle to Ana’s pursuit, whereas in the play Carmen is humanized and not the only reason Ana cannot pursue her education upon graduation from high school. The play’s portrayal of Carmen, is much more relatable and helps the reader to better understand Carmen as well as Ana. The play’s intended viewpoint seems to be about Ana, who at first is the confines of Mexican traditional ideas and looks down upon who shared them, but then later comes to appreciate the more positive aspects of the ideas and those who hold them. Carmen’s character is not relatable within the movie and it makes it more difficult to appreciate the story’s intent.

Regardless of race or gender people in today’s society have probably seen something on the media and have strived to be more like that image. Women objectification is very common like in Alabama’s sorority recruitment video, they only showed the prettiest of girls with the nicest body; the whole video did not tell of any offers or why an individual should come to their college, instead it only showed girls playing around in bikinis or minimal clothing (WKRGNews). Although this recruitment video was later taken down due to the controversy it caused, it shows that women objectification is out there and very common. Men are similar to women in the fact that they are also objectified. Objectifying men is seen as not as big of a problem than female objectification but it is equally important. Magic Mike XXL objectifies men by portraying Mark Wahlberg and other actors with great bodies by dancing and other classic chick flick scenes (WarnerBrosPicture). Actors in movies like Magic Mike XXL make the average man look plain disappointing as well as women in magazines or other movies. The average person in today's society can differentiate between flawless and average but none the less objectification of men and women occur frequently in the

Women like Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Jane Cunningham Croly worked hard to fight for rights. Even though at the time women could not vote, they became active in movements to influence politics. In the course book on page 589, it describes the activities of women’s clubs as extraordinary. I did some research on the history of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs and found an article tilted, “General Federation of Women's Clubs International”, written by The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. In this article, it mentions how the General Federation of Women’s Clubs was founded when Jane Cunningham Croly issued an invitation to other women’s clubs to form an umbrella organization. As you can see women were fighting for equality

In the selection, A Respectable Woman, Kate Chopin portrayed the life of an early nineteenth-century woman, expected role, and behavior in a largely patriarchal society. During that period, churches in America were instrumental to the way people lived. Due to the large influence of Catholics, Anglicans, and other Protestant churches in America, people believed that having an affair outside of marriage was a taboo and ungodly. Married women symbolized perfection and most times battle, with satisfying sexual desires, and keeping their role as respectable women. Chopin employed the use of plot, conflict, theme, imagery, and symbolism, verbal and dramatic irony, and foreshadowing techniques to narrate the story of a woman torn between satisfying sexual desires and staying faithful.

Laura Mulvey’s theory is built on the concept of there being pleasure in looking. This manifests itself in two ways. The first is scopophilia, “in which looking itself is a source of pleasure” (Mulvey, p. 713). This sort of looking is active looking, and makes whatever is being looked at passive, receiving the gaze. The second way that this visual pleasure manifests itself is in its narcissistic form, which is to derive pleasure through the act of identification with the image seen. The image seen is a more perfect version of the spectator, making it pleasurable for the spectator to identify with them, to live

When Holden checks into a cheap motel where he finds himself extremely restless. He makes his way downstairs into the Lavender Room, a night club. When the waiter refuses to give him a cocktail due to his age, he entertains himself by flirting with three older woman. Although the woman start to belittle the younger boy, Holden still seems to crave their attention much like in the lyrics “She’s Always a Woman” by Billy Joel. The lyrics “She can lead you to love/She can take you or leave you,” represents the unintentional attention the woman receives from Holden. When he first starts flirting, they tolerate him, but in the end, they abandon him with a massive bill to pay. “She will promise you more/than the Garden of Eden/then she’ll carelessly

Men like the way women look.‭ ‬Whether it‭ ‬is women on TV or in magazines,‭ ‬they seem to like to look at women.‭ ‬Is this common among all men to want to look at that girl in the cute dress or the tight jeans‭? ‬Or maybe‭ ‬it‭’‬s only certain guys that have to stare at women as they pass.‭ ‬But what if the man looking is married‭? ‬That certainly changes the innocence of the stare. In "The Girls in their summer dresses", by Irwin Shaw,‭ ‬Michael Loomis is a guy that likes to stare at women other than his wife.‭ ‬She constantly catches him looking at these women and she calls him out on it.‭ ‬He tries to reassure her that he loves her and is happily married but she isn't convinced.‭ ‬Michael Loomis

The story "A Respectable Woman" by Kate Chopin’s explore the live of Mrs. Mrs. Baroda, a lady from a high class and her husband Gaston who lived in a sugar plantation in Louisiana. The story hinges upon defining what a respectable woman is and should be. She captures in details the role of a traditional woman towards the creation of a modern women behavior and the challenges they face as they transition into modernity.