Sociology
According to Davis (1995), women may seek cosmetic surgery because:
they have a deep-rooted sense of ineffectiveness and are striving for control
they are in pursuit of the ‘perfect’ body, fuelled by images of beauty
they perceive a part of their body as stigmatizing, in relation to a cultural ideal
their male partners pressurize them to look like supermodels
they perceive a part of their body as stigmatizing, in relation to a cultural ideal
The ‘ideal’ image of femininity changes over time and varies between cultures. In contemporary Western societies, the cultural ideal, fuelled by fashion and advertising, is a woman who is slim, attractive, and self-assured. Many women whose bodies do not conform this ideal seek to change them, through regimes of diet, exercise, and increasingly, cosmetic surgery. Davis suggested that women who do this are responding to the perceived stigma of a particular body part, rather than striving for absolute, perfect beauty, but that their perceptions were skewed by unrealistic images of the ‘normal’ female body. 306-309
they perceive a part of their body as stigmatizing, in relation to a cultural ideal The ‘ideal’ image of femininity changes over time and varies between cultures. In contemporary Western societies, the cultural ideal, fuelled by fashion and advertising, is a woman who is slim, attractive, and self-assured. Many women whose bodies do not conform this ideal seek to change them, through regimes of diet, exercise, and increasingly, cosmetic surgery. Davis suggested that women who do this are responding to the perceived stigma of a particular body part, rather than striving for absolute, perfect beauty, but that their perceptions were skewed by unrealistic images of the ‘normal’ female body. 306-309
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