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The Body Being Stared: The Study Of The Phenomenon Of “slimming Women” Under The Perspective Of Cultural Communication

Posted on:2018-09-16Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Z Y LiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2358330518990244Subject:Journalism and Communication
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All along, the beauty of women's body is a hot topic. In different regions and different historical periods, the society has different requirements for the aesthetic of the body. With more and more open of the society, people enjoy the increasingly rich material conditions, has also been given more autonomy and freedom; discussion about the body more open, women can openly show their bodies, in the social aspects have equal to male voice. People's understanding of beauty should have a richer and more abundant connotation with the development of the society. But with men more straightforward evaluation of women's body, "lean" into the whole social cognition for the female body. In the consumerism and the mass media are the size of women in the male setting eyes continuous transformation and processing of your body, the body became a myth and the tools to complete the look of bearing.In this paper, women lose weight as the main research topic in cultural communication context in a series of entertainment in the over coat actually define and interpret the female body entertainment as a clue, the Sex Rights Study of male gaze included. Iin the present era of emotional female body, is still the focus of the whole society, women's autonomy is being demonstrated in long-term depression, but the male sex power in sexual relations within the female influenced. The popular pursuit of thin, the definition of fragmentation of the female body, and even women are also in the eyes of men continue to join forces to lose weight, all this indicates that weight loss is becoming a new social behavior. Women lose weight is not a new topic,but a series of cultural and entertainment phenomenon is that weight loss has become a culture dish operation mechanism of sex and power, women are losing their body's sovereignty. On the basis of this, this paper uses qualitative research methods, the female body in the macro context, the use of full and accurate theory to interpret a series of thin pursuit of aesthetic activities. At the same time, by using the method of quantitative research and content analysis combining the discussion of the female body is constantly gaze, and increasingly dominate the social causes of the body to produce, study how women are in the eyes of others, has been transformed by control and intervention.The public discourse of social reality gradually in the way of entertainment, the public and others show the body of the female body to give the label, in addition to suggest that Bozeman's "entertainment to death", implies that the whole society for women's health and gender imagination. Behind the weight loss behavior, the male gaze not only makes them lose their independent personality, so that women's physical and mental damage,but also gives a new constraint on women.
Keywords/Search Tags:Body, Weight-loss, Patriarchy, Feminism
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