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Idealized Bodies
Sun, August 9, 2:00 to 3:30pm, TBASession Submission Type: Paper Session (90 minute)
Description
Papers in this session examine how some bodies (real or imagined) are socially constructed as more valuable than other bodies, and the effects of these idealized bodies on people’s everyday lives, relationships, and aspirations. Specifically, this session addresses: media and medicalized representations of ideal bodies; discourses and images of fatness/thinness and ideal body weight and shape; the role of expertise in constructing ideal bodies; intersectional approaches to beauty; and other related topics.
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Individual Presentations
"The Perfect Body”: Constructing Korean Masculinity and Muscular Hierarchy through Physical: 100 - Danny Lee, Indiana University- Bloomington; Alex Manning, Yale University
Aesthetic Color Blindness in the Beauty Industry - Rebekah Burroway, Stony Brook University
Beauty is in the AI of the Beholder - AJ Alvero, Cornell University; Alejanda Regla-Vargas, University of Pennsylvania; Heeyon Kim, Cornell University; Jasmine McNealy, University of Florida; Rene Kizilcec, Cornell University
Deserving Patients and Undeserving Consumers: Intersecting Identities in Narratives of GLP-1 Takers - Alka Menon, Yale University
Constructing the Healthy, Attractive Child - Maxine Leeds Craig