What Is The Significance Of The Nipove Speech

Brumberg makes the claim that the more physical freedom that women enjoyed, escaping corsets and such, the more control over they would feel pressured to exert on their internal body (98). The most prevalent way then, as well as now, to exert control over the one’s own body was through dieting. Dieting, bras, and standard sized clothing were all contributing to the increased control over the body. Even doctors began to weigh in on the proper way to shape healthy breasts and prevent unattractive sagging (through wearing proper bras). Once again, girls and their bodies were the subjected to more American commercialization. Brumberg points to the craze of body piercings in the 90s as the latest way to control and sexualize the female body. Chapter five explores the changing worth of female virginity in the different values placed upon an intact hymen. From being jointly owned, never talked about, and fiercely protected, to being a female’s own worry, freely talked about, and medically altered, we see the way differing sexual morals shifted the way the hymen was

Let’s begin with the obvious, all women have had their period. This process is as natural as eating, peeing, drinking and sleeping. Now have any of you ever walked into a bathroom and had to pay for the toilet paper? No, you haven’t. I’m sure that it also never occurred to anyone to carry around toilet paper in case they had to do their business away from home. For sanitary reasons we want people to wipe their behinds. For sexist reasons, we don’t offer the same concern for women who don’t want to bleed on furniture or their clothes. After years of women being shamed into not talking about periods more and more are speaking up.

There has always been a stigma surrounding the topic of women’s health, especially the reproductive kind, as the world has set standards for a how a woman’s body should be. The stigma begins where, unfortunately for the world, women’s bodies oftentimes do not comply with these standards. Because of the rifts between expectation and reality girls are shamed, oftentimes unconsciously or via systemic responses and interactions. It becomes an ingrained and understood conduct, teaching girls that their bodies exist for objective purposes, and it lays the foundation for developing insecurities. Bodily insecurities tend to run so deeply that even women in adulthood shy away from taking proper care of themselves. Because of how taboo discussing women’s

With the advancement of suffrage to equal pay, over the last century, women’s rights have progressed immensely. Through historic marches and demonstrations across the United States, women protested for their equal place in politics and social progress. Despite the fear-mongering components used in achieving these rights, women’s rights are still thoroughly debated within society today. Over the last century, incredible and unreachable goals have been fulfilled for women, such as the right to vote and a sense of equal state in the “Free World,” and can only improve in the years to come.

In the world of supermodels and Kardashians, one thing the world is definitely lacking is modesty. It’s hard to even go out into the city without seeing a scantily clad woman on a billboard. There seems to be no problem with nudity in the public places, and yet if a breastfeeding mother sits down to feed her child, it’s immodest and should be done in a separate room. The controversy surrounding breastfeeding is one consisting of hypocrisy and childishness. Breastfeeding is a natural part of life, and yet women are expected to take their child into the bathroom to feed them even though they would not normally eat in the bathroom themselves. This is an opinion that needs to be changed, whether that change is met with opposition or not.

How do you like one-breasted women? Many people are probably asking what the heck I’m talking about, but just think about all the women losing their breasts in the fight against breast cancer. To even imagine all the bravery accomplished by those many acts to save a life and then the others that are shown in the article, The Clan of One-Breasted Women, by Terry Williams now that’s something most of us can’t even do. The article is great at showing the courage of many women who thought that the US government was cheating them and more than likely showed many people, like myself, how much it takes to stand up for what one believes. Williams starts by the common statistics of breast cancer

In this paper I will evaluate two artworks that share the same theme of “motherhood and breastfeeding.” In the last few years, the sexualization of breastfeeding has become a big issue. This is due to people see breast as sexual objects and think that women are being exhibitionist, and are doing it just to flaunt their breasts in public. Breastfeeding mothers are faced with the public criticism as they struggle to breastfeed their child, although it is the most natural and healthy method of feeding. The first artwork is by Mary Cassatt and is titled Mother Rose Nursing her Child. This painting was created in the 1900s and it depicts a woman breastfeeding her child. The second piece is a contemporary portrait created by Catherine Opie titled Self-Portrait Nursing. The portrait depicts a modern mother also nursing her child. When comparing both of these pieces of art I plan to focus on the beauty of motherhood and the bond between mother and child. In this paper I will discuss the social issue of mother’s being criticized for breastfeeding in public. Now more than ever women’s breasts are being overly sexualized when they are not a sexual organ, but in fact a part of their body used to feed another human being.

Since the link to the youtube video on blackboard was deleted, I searched up Save the Boobs PSA on youtube and I hoped the one I had viewed is the same video. So the PSA begins with at a pool party where everybody is doing their own thing (ex. guy on the floatie eating a hotdog in the pool). When all of a sudden rock music begins to play, an a “fly honey” in a white bikini makes her way through the crowd where young men, women, and even old people stopped in their tracks not just to gaze at her beauty, but mostly at her voluptuous boobies! The cameras seem to focus alot on them jiggling to and ‘fro in slow motion. Throughout the PSA, there are title cards that complete a message stating, “You know you like them. It’s time to save the boobs.” Then towards the end of the PSA where she is now facing the guy in the floatie who is now violently eating up his hotdog, an info card shows up stating, “BREAST CANCER is the leading cause of cancer death in young women aged 25-49.”

Specific Purpose: The purpose of this speech is to motivate my audience by discussing the problems, solutions, and potential outcomes of breastfeeding infants.

“Breast is best” is an ideological framework that enabled the Canadian government to control and dictate the bodies of marginalized peoples. Despite the associated benefits to both the child and the mother, breast milk rhetoric in the Canadian context was developed by breastfeeding supporters to reclaim infant-feeding. Since the early 1960s, the Canadian government, the World Health Organization (WHO), and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) argued for a return to breastfeeding because of its associated health benefits to both the mother and child. When Aboriginal women were informed of the possibility of polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) contamination to their breast milk in Northern Quebec, breastfeeding rates among aboriginal women throughout Canada was on the rise. By the late 1980s, the Canadian federal government, in collaboration with the Canadian Paediatric Society and La Leche League, emphasis on the importance and naturalization of breastfeeding had flourished dramatically, so much so that women with contaminated milk were still encouraged to breastfeed. It was argued, despite previous issues related with PCB contamination in infants, that the benefits outweighed the risk. The resurgence of breastfeeding in Canada and globally, beginning in the late 1960s and early 1970s, created the authoritative recommendation for Inuit women with contaminated milk to continue breastfeeding regardless of potential risks of PCBs. In examining newspaper articles, materials

Toplessness is legal in Europe, Canada, parts of Africa and Australia. Some arguments of not legalizing female toplessness, is that it will lead to more sexual assaults and rape of women, which it will not. The United States is the 6th country with the highest rape rates, whereas Canada, who has made toplessness legal, is the 7th country with the lowest rape rates. Once toplessness becomes legal, society will adapt and soon will desexualize and normalize women's breasts.

While in the Women and the Body course, I was able to dissect the images, constraints, and beliefs associated with the woman’s body. The debate over body image originated from patriarchal constraints, deeming that women have to fit into an ideal of womanhood. A woman’s body image is suppose to be a direct link to the man she is with. She should have childbearing hips, a stature that is associated in being motherly, and breasts to breast feed the children. With that it grew into using man made objects to reinforce the patriarchal power about body

As early as the 1940’s, men have been allowed shirtless on beaches, parks, and pools. So why is it still illegal for women in 2015? Breasts are part of the anatomy. Do we make cows or female dogs wear shirts? No, because we don’t look at them sexually, they’re just there. The exploitation of women has been effecting the things I can and can’t do and I am sick of it. Women should be allowed topless in public in the same places men are. We wonder why women are looked at the way they are, maybe we should start by giving all humans equal rights.

The pleasures and rights of a woman’s sexual freedom, and doing it safely was my activism project main objective. I endeavored to educate woman concerning these issue in a fun and comfortable atmosphere. This topic can be simultaneously controversial and exciting.

The pornographic industry has not lost their viewers, and the constant leaks of female celebrity personal pictures demonstrate that society has always sexualized women’s body for their pleasure. McRobbie states that there is a modern movement where women are free to choose for themselves. Females are choosing to go topless to prove breasts are merely body parts. Celebrities such as Bella Hadid and Rihanna walk the streets with see-through tops, making the appearance of their breasts nothing but a fashion statement. Many allegations are made saying self-exposing breasts comes from a lack of self-respect. The question arises, is it only acceptable for women to be topless for the pleasure of others? Not in the current pop culture world. Women are free to make their decisions, and they have decided their breasts are not to be sexualized. If a woman’s breast is out, she is doing it out of choice and for her