Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies

Me and My Fat Pants: Diaries, Body Projects, and Recent Representations

Document Type

Oral Presentation

Location

Indianapolis, IN

Subject Area

Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies

Start Date

10-4-2015 10:15 AM

End Date

10-4-2015 10:30 AM

Description

Expectations and representations of the beautiful, thin, full-breasted, long-legged young woman within the media in the twentieth century have compelled young women to take on what scholar and historian Joan Jacobs Brumberg refers to as body projects,  where young women and adolescent girls have begun to conceptualize their bodies as a never-ending and all-consuming self-improvement project. The body project is the idea that young women are perpetually seeking to improve their bodies, and thus, themselves. The presence of body projects in the twentieth century has allowed for the body and the self to become one and the same. The body and the self work in tandem, with one simultaneously defining the other.

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Me and My Fat Pants: Diaries, Body Projects, and Recent Representations

Indianapolis, IN

Expectations and representations of the beautiful, thin, full-breasted, long-legged young woman within the media in the twentieth century have compelled young women to take on what scholar and historian Joan Jacobs Brumberg refers to as body projects,  where young women and adolescent girls have begun to conceptualize their bodies as a never-ending and all-consuming self-improvement project. The body project is the idea that young women are perpetually seeking to improve their bodies, and thus, themselves. The presence of body projects in the twentieth century has allowed for the body and the self to become one and the same. The body and the self work in tandem, with one simultaneously defining the other.