Interesting articles you're digging up, Akasha. I've always wondered why those who are down on strip clubs and the like for objectifying women don't seem to have much to say about *advertising*, and the role that the images of women on TV and in movies and in magazines have in that regard.
I've really come to believe that it's as simple as "Advertising and TV and movies and magazines are legal and considered an integral part of our culture, and strip clubs are not. What we object to is that men can lust after women in public, rather than behind closed doors, where we'd like them to be." Me, I'd be willing to bet that more objectification of women has been established over the years in men as the result of one-handed reading of Vogue and Cosmo and any other magazine that shows scantily-clad women than will *ever* be established as a result of visits to strip clubs. --- In [email protected], akasha_108 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Objectification of women and girls in our culture is pervasive > (Frederickson & Roberts, 1997). > > http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2294/is_9- 10_49/ai_110813265 > > > > Objectification theory posits that the ubiquitous objectification of > women in our culture encourages body dissatisfaction, eating problems, > and other mental health concerns among girls and women (Frederickson & > Roberts, 1997). There are data that show that women are objectified in > the media, that girls and women experience a high rate of body > dissatisfaction and eating problems, and that exposure to objectified > media images of women is related to the experience of > self-objectification and body shame among women. One purpose of the > present study was to examine the links between these variables from a > developmental perspective by examining how grade-school girls > responded to objectified images of women. A second purpose was to > examine how grade-school boys responded to objectified images of men. > Although such images of men are less common in our culture, there is a > growing concern that they, too, might be problematic. > > Objectification of women and girls in our culture is pervasive > (Frederickson & Roberts, 1997). In the media women's bodies are more > likely to be shown to advertise products and there is often a focus on > parts of the body, rather than the whole body, which emphasizes the > view of woman as an object (e.g., Archer, Iritani, Kimes, & Barrios, > 1983; Kilbourne, 1994). Images of women are often sexualized, which > sends the message that men may "possess" women's bodies (see > Frederickson & Roberts, 1997). Greater sexual objectification of women > than men has been found in many media realms including fashion and > fitness magazines (Rudman & Verdi, 1993), "MTV" (music television) > commercials (Signorielli, McLeod, & Healy, 1994), and prime-time > television commercials (Lin, 1998). > > In addition to being portrayed as sex objects, women presented in the > media are unrealistically thin (see Gilbert & Thompson, 1996; Levine & > Smolak, 1996 for reviews). Playboy centerfold models, Miss America > contestants, female television characters, and models in women's > magazines have all gotten thinner across time (Garner, Garfinkel, > Schwartz, & Thompson, 1980; Mazur, 1986; Silverstein, Perdue, > Peterson, & Kelly, 1986) whereas average American women have become > heavier (Spitzer, Henderson, & Zivian, 1999). ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
