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Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Article title
 * Beauty Made Plastic: Constructions of a Western Feminine Ideal.


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article observes the perfect "Barbie doll-like" standard of beauty in contemporary representations of feminine embodiment and subjectivity. It also goes into various origins about the feminine beauty ideal such as the technological, historical, linguistic, and aesthetic origins. The article focuses on how there is a narrative that women should be like dolls, having perfect beauty, immaculate body shape and how not following this standard has consequences for women.
 * Sources
 * Whitney. (2013). Beauty Made Plastic: Constructions of a Western Feminine Ideal. Word and Text, III(2), 119–132.
 * Whitney. (2013). Beauty Made Plastic: Constructions of a Western Feminine Ideal. Word and Text, III(2), 119–132.

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Standards of Beauty: The Impact of Mannequins in the Retail Context


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article looked into 6 studies regarding mannequins and how it affects both men and women to have a lower level of self-esteem. It discusses how mannequins signal a standard of beauty that should be attained. The research showed that when individuals are shopping and looking at these mannequins, it lowers their self-esteem when they feel that they don't look similar to the mannequin. The article also looked into different avenues to changing mannequins so that the buyers don't feel the need to compare themselves to mannequins.
 * Sources
 * Argo, & Dahl, D. W. (2018). Standards of Beauty: The Impact of Mannequins in the Retail Context. The Journal of Consumer Research, 44(5), 974–990. https://doi.org/10.1093/jcr/ucx072
 * Sources
 * Argo, & Dahl, D. W. (2018). Standards of Beauty: The Impact of Mannequins in the Retail Context. The Journal of Consumer Research, 44(5), 974–990. https://doi.org/10.1093/jcr/ucx072

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Should We Genetically Select for the Beauty Norm of Fair Skin?


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article deeply delves into race and colour hierarchies when it comes to the beauty norm because of how fair skin has been considered the 'standard'. There was also mention of how the beauty norm for fair skin limits career goals and opportunities for Black women and women of colour. As Black women and women of colour practice self-censorship when applying for jobs because they expect that they will not be chosen to play lead roles in a workplace due to the disproportionate racial portrayals in various professions.


 * Sources
 * Marway, H. (2017). Should We Genetically Select for the Beauty Norm of Fair Skin? Health Care Analysis, 26(3), 246–268. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10728-017-0341-y

Option 4

 * Article title
 * Body Modification in East Asia: An Introduction


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article discusses different parts of East Asia and what types of body modification surgeries are popular. It gave insights into how vastly different beauty standards can be even within one region and the lengths that women will go to achieve such standards.


 * Sources
 * Henley, & Porath, N. (2021). Body Modification in East Asia: An Introduction. Asian Studies Review, 45(2), 189–197. https://doi.org/10.1080/10357823.2021.1902931

Option 5

 * Article title
 * Gender Rites and Rights: The Biopolitics of Beauty and Fertility.


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article had quotes from women, surgeons and the media regarding topics about how women should look and how visuals affect the alleged perceived fertility of a woman.
 * Sources
 * Sources

Morgan. (2016). Gender Rites and Rights: The Biopolitics of Beauty and Fertility. In Philosophical Perspectives on Bioethics (pp. 210–243). University of Toronto Press. https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442623552-013