Reflections on I Need Feminism Because… Becoming A Woman 2: Puberty and Adolescence Growing up, I had enough struggles to keep out of the way, to understand what was going on around me, and to navigate my own way through puberty in junior high and high school. As it was for everyone else, it wasn’t easy for me. I had no conversation with my parents about any of… Read More
Media Imagery of Women as Reinforcing Propaganda Stereotypes: An Analysis of Literature Media propaganda is vitally important, whether advertising, marketing, movies or television shows, to the reinforcement of stereotyped images of women and persons of color, most of it subconscious and embedded within the very imagery of language that each of us use and the conditioning propaganda that all of us have been subjected to and programmed… Read More
Summary Analysis of I’ll Have What She’s Having: Effects of Social Influence and Body Type on the Food Choices of Others Introduction. This study examines consumer body type affects the food eating habits of those around them adjusted for whether the influencer is overweight or thin and whether the person being influenced has high or low self-esteem. The authors note that several authors point to a sedentary lifestyle and the high consumption of food as the… Read More