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Article: "Feminine beauty ideal"

http://beauty-review.nl/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/The-pervasiveness-and-persistence-of-the-feminine-beauty-ideal-in-childrens-fairy-tales.pdf

The link posted above is a source that I think could be used to add more information to the article, "Feminine beauty ideal". This source is already listed in the references, but there is a lot of information that can still be added from the source. From this source we can include more information about the actual study that this article is writing about and their findings. There is also information that could be added to the article that compares what fairytales taught to young girls in different time periods, and how they portrayed what was considered "beautiful" for that particular time period. We can also add more to how fairytales portray to young girls what the idea of beauty is and what is looks like. This article also discusses how in fairytales, the appearance of men is far less mentioned throughout the story than the appearance of the women in fairytales.

https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://scholar.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=4845&context=etd

This is another link to an article that talks about how fairytales portray the feminine beauty ideal. This article talks about how the feminine beauty ideal can create anxiety about appearances and the need to match the beauty ideal. This article also touches more upon the idea of being beautiful as being "good" and being older or not as attractive as being "bad". The article also talks about how the older and not as attractive characters are also often jealous of and can be violent and negative towards the more beautiful characters. I think that this article has information that we could add under the "fairytale" section of the article since it is short.

http://jrscience.wcp.muohio.edu/humans_web_04/beauty/feminine.pdf

This article contains information that we could add to the section, "evolutionary perspectives" because it discusses different feminine beauty ideals in the United States over time and it also includes some negative impacts that those beauty ideals have had on women such as anorexia and bulimia. I think that we could also add a new section to our article with information from this article. This article talks about how some women "overadapt" to the beauty ideals which may lead to anorexia, psychological stresses, and other complications. The article talks about how some women do not realize when they pass the "beauty ideal". The article also talks about the variability of what is considered beautiful across cultures. This article will also allow us to add information regarding how the feminine beauty ideal has shifted in the United States.

https://womenintheworld.com/2015/04/03/new-study-shows-impact-of-social-media-on-beauty-standards/ Here is a link to a source that I think is pretty interesting. While I was reading the article I thought of many ways that social media portrays feminine beauty standards, but this source lead me to women who are sort of going against these ideals of what "beauty" should be defined as. They all have social media accounts that portray all different types of women and how they are beautiful. I am not sure where we could add this in the article, but I think mentioning that there are people that go "against the grain" if you will when it comes to today's beauty ideals.

Article Draft

"Feminine Beauty Ideal"

This will be put in the section "Psychological effects"

The feminine beauty ideal has influenced women, particularly younger women, to partake in extreme measures. Some of these extreme measures include limiting their food intake, and participating in excessive physical activity to try to achieve what is considered the "ideal beauty standards". One aspect of the feminine beauty ideal includes having a thin waist, which is causing women to participate in these alarming behaviors. When trying to achieve these impossible standards, these dangerous practices are put into place. These practices can eventually lead to the woman developing eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia. As achieving the "beauty ideal" becomes a more popular phenomenon, these eating disorders are becoming more prevalent, especially in young women. H.speedy (talk) 21:44, 19 March 2018 (UTC)Hannah

Place this in a new section titled "The Feminine Beauty Ideal Across Cultures":

There have been many ideas over time and across different cultures of what the feminine beauty "ideal" is for a woman's body image. How well a woman follows these beauty ideals can also influence her social status within her culture. Physically altering the body has been a custom in many areas of the world for a long time. For example, decorating the body with tattoos is a symbol of attractiveness and status in the Japanese culture. The art of irezumi, or covering a woman's back with tattoos, is still practiced today in Japan. In Burma, Padung girls from the age of about 5 years, have metal rings put around their necks. Additional rings are added to the girl's neck every 2 years. This practice is done to produce a giraffe like effect in women. This practice is dying out, but these women would eventually carry up to 24 rings around their necks. A neck with many rings was considered the "ideal" image of physical beauty in this culture. In Europe, the corset has been used over time to create a tiny waistline. In Europe, a tiny waistline was considered "ideal" for beauty. A practice in China involved a girl's feet being bound at age six to create the "ideal" image of feet. The girl's feet were bound to become 1/3 the original size, which crippled the woman, but also gave her a very high social status and was much admired. After the revolution of 1911, this practice of foot binding was ended. The idea of what is considered the "ideal" of beauty for women varies across different cultural ideals and practices. H.speedy (talk) 15:46, 18 April 2018 (UTC)Hannah

This will be placed in the " In media" section

The feminine beauty ideal is ingrained into the youth from a very young age. Being told that a women without these features are not as beautiful. It creates these standards that are impossible and maybe even unhealthy to maintain. The media is being controlled by people who want to make a profit so they continue to make these unrealistic ideals. That way customers are never satisfied and constantly striving to change the things they do not like about themselves. March 2018 Rondisha

This will be added to the culture section There have been multiple "ideals for women" in France as well as other various cultures. A more common ideal is for females to have the "three white things". These "things" or traits refer to skin, teeth and hands. There are also the "three black things" including the color of the person's eyebrows and eyelashes. This leaves three other areas to embark on color including the cheeks, lips, and nails. April 2018

This will also be placed in the "media" section

The media does a poor job of defining what a "normal girl" looks like and young girls are always being exposed to this unattainable standard that is portrayed as "normal". Perfection is achieved by celebrities through photoshopped images that hide every blemish or flaw while also editing body parts to create the "ideal" hourglass body type. March 2018 Lexi

I'm not sure what section to add this:

The Dove Beauty and Confidence Report interviewed 10,500 females across thirteen countries and found that women's confidence in their body image is steadily declining - regardless of age or geographic location. Despite these findings, there is a strong desire to fight existing beauty ideals. In fact, 71% of women and 67% of girls want the media to do a better job of portraying different types of women. Studies done by Dove reveal low self esteem impacts women and girls' ability to release their true potential. 85% of women and 79% of girls admit they opt out of important life activities when they do not feel confident in the way they look. More than half of women (69%) and girls (65&) allude to pressure from the media and advertisements to become the world's version of beautiful, which is a driving force of appearance anxiety.

Studies done by Dove have also revealed the following statistics: "4% of women consider themselves beautiful, 11% of girls globally are comfortable with describing themselves as beautiful, 72% of girls feel pressure to be beautiful, 80% of women agree that every woman has something about her that is beautiful, but do not see their own beauty, and that 54% of women agree that when it comes to how they look, they are their own worst beauty critic." 19 April 2018 Lexi