Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Blog #1
Hi. I am Anna. I am Spanish major. I am originally from Ames and I just transferred to ISU from UNI where I was a social work major. I have a one-year-old daughter who is my delight. This class seems really interesting to me. I have always been interested in women’s studies and looking at some of the issues of body images or ideals especially from this perspective where people can basically design a person entirely not based in reality seems like a really fascinating/ horrifying way of viewing what these ideals may be. I thought one thing that was really interesting in this article is the fact that most of the altered women in some way were tied to a man as the creator and kind of this god to creation type of system only in this case man is god and women is the creation.
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Thanks for your post, Anna! I'm going to try to respond occasionally to everyone's posts, and I just wanted to take this opportunity to welcome you once again to class. I'll be interested to hear if you think of any examples from the Spanish-speaking world (not a culture I'm especially familiar with) as it relates to the issues of body image and ideals you highlight in your post. I also like your comment about the simultaneous fascinating/horrifying nature of spectatorship regarding (most often female/feminine) bodies. I'm sure that will be a recurring theme. Also the issue of "man the creator" is an idea that comes especially out of the Enlightenment and is repeated frequently thereafter. I look forward to your contributions in class!
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