gender, race, and consumer culture: barbie, food, diets, and weddings bordo, ducille, engstrom
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Gender, Race, and Consumer Culture:
Barbie, Food, Diets, and WeddingsBordo, Ducille, Engstrom
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Bordo, “Hunger as Ideology”
• unrestrained appetite inappropriate for women
• female eating a private, transgressive act
• restriction and denial of hunger central to femininity
• compensatory binge as a virtual inevitability
• not merely about food intake:
“Rather, the social control of female hunger operates as a practical ‘discipline’ . . . that trains female bodies in the knowledge of their limits and their possibilities. Denying oneself food becomes the central micro-practice in the education of feminine self-restraint and containment of impulse.”
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Women’s relationship to food in advertising
Men’s relationship to food in advertising
The analogy of food and sexHow is this gendered?
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http://www.jeankilbourne.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/icecream.jpg
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http://nymag.com/thecut/2013/04/meet-the-three-clich-women-of-diet-food-ads.html
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Hunger as metaphor for sexual appetite: Nina Agdal for Carl’s Jr.
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Men and Diet Commercials
Nutrisystem commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jR9dLAXdTmM
Another Nutrisytem commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMCEoeENPYw&NR=1&feature=endscreen
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Barbie: “Just a Piece of Plastic”?
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No matter how much scholars attempt to intellectualize it otherwise, "race" generally means "non-white", and "black" is still related to skin colour, hair texture, facial features, body type, and other outward signifiers of difference. A less neutral term for such signifiers is, of course, stereotypes. In playing the game of difference with its ethnic dolls, Mattel either defies or deploys these stereotypes, depending on cost and convenience. (DuCille, 344)
Barbie Fashionista collection, 2015
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From Colored Francie of the 1960s to Soul Train Shani of the 1990s, Mattel has seized every opportunity to profit from shifts in racial, cultural, and social politics. (DuCille, 338)
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Racial stereotypes
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We need to theorize race and gender not as meaningless but as meaningful -- as sites of difference, filled with constructed meanings that are in need of constant decoding and interrogation. Such analysis may not finally free us of the ubiquitous body-biology bind or release us from the quagmire of racism and sexism but it may be at once the most and the least we can do to reclaim difference from the moulds of mass production and the casts of dominant culture. (DuCille, 346)
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Engstrom
Wedding media promote “not only … the institution of marriage but … the importance of consumption in attaining and maintaining it.” (65)
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Importance of wedding photography – expensive
Bride as object
The wedding as a social event and excuse for consumerism holds more significance than a couple’s relationship
Dress is of paramount importance
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“Commodity feminism”