Self-objectification and that “not so fresh feeling”: Feminist therapeutic interventions for healthy female embodiment
TA Roberts, PL Waters - From menarche to menopause, 2014 - api.taylorfrancis.com
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In a culture obsessed with women's attractiveness and beauty, media messages abound
telling us our corporeal bodies are unacceptable as they are. Women's bodies need
sanitizing, deodorizing, exfoliating, and denuding. Perhaps more than any other bodily
function, menstruation must be kept “under wraps” in a sexually objectifying culture. In this
article, we argue that girls' and women's feelings of accep-
telling us our corporeal bodies are unacceptable as they are. Women's bodies need
sanitizing, deodorizing, exfoliating, and denuding. Perhaps more than any other bodily
function, menstruation must be kept “under wraps” in a sexually objectifying culture. In this
article, we argue that girls' and women's feelings of accep-
Summary
In a culture obsessed with women’s attractiveness and beauty, media messages abound telling us our corporeal bodies are unacceptable as they are. Women’s bodies need sanitizing, deodorizing, exfoliating, and denuding. Perhaps more than any other bodily function, menstruation must be kept “under wraps” in a sexually objectifying culture. In this article, we argue that girls’ and women’s feelings of accep-
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