Beauty and Misogyny: Harmful cultural practices in the West

By S. Jeffreys. 2005

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The Madonna-Whore Dichotomy: Men Who Perceive Women's Nurturance and Sexuality as Mutually Exclusive Endorse Patriarchy and Show Lower Relationship Satisfaction (2018, background): “According to feminist theory, sexual objectification serves as a means to (re)assert men’s dominance and perpetuate women’s inferiority (Dworkin 1981; Jeffreys 2005; MacKinnon 1987).”
2007 Presidential Address: Fear of Losing Control: Power, Perfectionism, and the Psychology of Women (2008, background): “Constant cultural demands that women pursue beauty have been described by feminist theorists as oppressive (e.g., Dworkin, 1974), misogynistic (Jeffreys, 2005), and a way to control women and uphold the status quo (e.g., Dworkin, 1974; Smith, 2004; Wolf, 1990).”
Low-Cut Shirts and High-Heeled Shoes: Increased Sexualization Across Time in Magazine Depictions of Girls (2013, background): “occur where characteristics of clothing in pornography such as high-heeled shoes might occur (Jeffreys 2005).”
Oppressive Beliefs at Play: Associations among Beauty Ideals and Practices and Individual Differences in Sexism, Objectification of Others, and Media Exposure (2010, background): “More generally, these findings support the feminist argument that individual differences in sexism are related to endorsement of the thin ideal and that oppressive patriarchal beliefs shape beauty ideals among women and men (e.g., Bartky, 1990; Bordo, 1993; Jeffreys, 2005; Smolak & Murnen, 2007).”
Body Dissatisfaction and Disordered Eating among College Women in China, South Korea, and the United States: Contrasting Predictions from Sociocultural and Feminist Theories (2007, background): “In contrast, based on the speed and pervasiveness of changes in women’s roles, feminist theory (Bordo, 1993; Jeffreys, 2005) would predict that body dissatisfaction and disordered eating would be highest in the Korean sample and lowest in the U.”
“Putting on” Sexiness: A Content Analysis of the Presence of Sexualizing Characteristics in Girls’ Clothing (2011, background): “With respect to particular clothing items, Jeffreys (2005) argues that female clothing items function to show both women’s difference from men and their deference to them, as sexual objects to men’s desires.”
Objectification Theory Predicts College Women’s Attitudes Toward Cosmetic Surgery (2010, background): “…unknown among the general population, such as chronic pain, deadly infections, gangrene, nerve damage, loss of sensation, mutilated body parts, amputation, reoperation, cancer detection difficulty, suicide, and death (Haiken 1997; Jeffreys 2005; McLaughlin et al. 2004; Wolf 1991; Zones 2000).”
Too Sexualized to be Taken Seriously? Perceptions of a Girl in Childlike vs. Sexualizing Clothing (2012, background): “a low-cut shirt) (Brownmiller 1984; Jeffreys 2005).”
Empowerment/Sexism: Figuring Female Sexual Agency in Contemporary Advertising (2008, unknown): “The ultimate sleight of hand is necessary: namely that the unnatural body – the depilated, liposuctioned, Botoxed, silicon enhanced body -- should be presented as 'natural' (Blum, 2003; Greer, 1999; Jeffreys, 2005).”