Kobieta trendy – czyli o maltretowaniu ciała
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2006
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Wydawnictwo Naukowe WNPiD UAM w Poznaniu
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A trendy woman, or about body torturing
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The history of women is the history of the struggle to look attractive, starting with
Egyptian wooden pillows that were to protect hairdos, through to Japanese tied-up feet
or the lacing of French beauties’ stays, to silicon bags implanted under the skin of
breasts. It is interesting that although the canon of beauty has changed, the mechanisms
of the phenomenon has remained unchanged throughout the centuries and has been
working like well-greased cogs of discipline, flexibility and pain.
If one becomes convinced that the body one has is exactly how it should be, one
can cut the Gordian knot of a modern Barbie. To understand this always leads to acceptance
and, in this case, to the acceptance of one’s own body, and – consequently – of
oneself. However, the body has been subjected to the dictates of modern consumption
and patriarchal culture, whose sole purpose is a maximum control over the way women
act and think.
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Środkowoeuropejskie Studia Polityczne, 2006, nr 1, s. 127-142.