Reshape The Body:Sociological Analysis Of Slimming Craze Of Female College Students

With the coming of emotional age, the body comes back to be the focus of the female’s feeling towards subject. The female body has been alienated as well as been manifested after a long time. Slimming craze of female college students is one among the presentation. The doctrine of "don’t get fat" has been the desire of all college female students. In spite of owning a standard figure or not, they join in losing weight, agreeing the thinner, the more beautiful and pursuing for a slim body. Losing weight has been a part of college female students’daily life.This study puts the body of the female college students in the connection of macro social background and daily experience. This study further the study of slimming craze of college female students based on the perspective of feminism, combining with related theory of sociology of the body. This paper adopts qualitative research method and puts the body of the female college students in the background of highlight and alienation of the female body. This paper depends on making depth interview with college female students who have the experience of losing weight and gains insight into the body experience before weight loss, in weight loss and after weight loss. Based on it, this paper aims at having a better study of the intervened, the remaked and the controlled female body in the contemporary era.Based on the review of existing literature, this paper figures out that with the coming of emotional age, the female body has been alienated as well as been manifested after a long time. The body of female college students is one among them. Then, this paper analyses the standards of reshaping, which has been limited to exact figure, and probes into the motivation of slimming of colleague female students, in which we could see social inequality of gender relations reflected by the slimming craze of female college students. Secondly, this paper refines the diversity and extreme techniques of slimming craze and the embodiment of colleague female students after losing weight. Based on the empirical research, this paper discusses why our culture is so obsessed in letting female college students keep a slender figure. At last, this paper advocates for melting the unified standard of beauty, achieving for individualized, diversified and democratized one; this paper also advocates for the awakening of feminist consciousness and hopes that college female students go back to the master of their own body.