The Pervasiveness and Persistence of the Feminine Beauty Ideal in Children's Fairy Tales

Baker-Sperry, Lori; Grauerholz, Liz

doi:10.1177/0891243203255605

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“…Within Western culture, the predominant stereotype of women has placed a heavy emphasis on beauty, youth, and physical attractiveness (Avsec, 2006;Baker-Sperry & Grauerholz, 2003;Beben, 2002;Cole & Zucker, 2007;Stankiewicz & Rosselli, 2008;Wu, Rose, & Bancroft, 2006). This stereotype is accompanied by the traditional gender role ideology of women as primary care givers and the perception that women are gentle, emotionally expressive, reluctant to bother others with their problems, sensitive and sociable (Prentice & Carranza, 2002).…”

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Help seeking for cardiac symptoms: Beyond the masculine–feminine binary

Galdas

Johnson

Percy

et al. 2010

Social Science & Medicine

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Empirical and theoretical literature suggests that stereotypical gender roles shape men's and women's health help-seeking behavior, and plays an important role in the treatment seeking delays of cardiac patients. We were interested in exploring the ways in which gender informs the experiences and help-seeking behavior of men and women who experienced the symptoms associated with acute cardiac events. We undertook 20 in-depth interviews between October 2007 and July 2008 with 11 men and 9 women recently diagnosed with an acute coronary syndrome in British Columbia, Canada. Participants were encouraged to tell their 'story' of the event that led to hospitalization and diagnosis, with a focus on the symptoms and decision making processes that occurred before and during the activation of health services: seeking the advice of others including colleagues, family members and healthcare professionals; calling 911; and attending an emergency department. Although we anticipated that distinctive patterns of help-seeking behavior aligned with stereotypical masculine and feminine ideals might emerge from our data, this was not always the case. We found some evidence of the influence of gender role ideology on the help-seeking behavior of both male and female participants. However, men's and women's experiences of seeking health care were not easily parsed into distinct binary gender patterns. Behavior that might stereotypically be considered to be 'masculine' or 'feminine' gender practice was shared by both male and female participants. Our findings undermine simple binary distinctions about gendered help-seeking prevalent in the literature, and contribute towards setting the direction of the future health policy and research agenda addressing the issue of gender and health help-seeking behavior.

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Help seeking for cardiac symptoms: Beyond the masculine–feminine binary

Galdas

Johnson

Percy

et al. 2010

Social Science & Medicine

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“…Over the last hundred years, "media" has grown to be a broad term to include television, movies, internet and books [1][2][3][4][5][6]. In this chapter, the term "media" is limited to include both print and graphic forms of communication.…”

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“…Therefore, it is not surprising then that science educators have long since suspected a connection between the relationship of media and its inluence upon students' perceptions (or conceptions) of scientists [31][32][33]. Numerous authors have argued that media signiicantly contribute to students' schema development [1,6,28,[31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39].…”

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Mixed Messages for Our Next Generation of Scientists

Farland-Smith¹

2017

The Evolution of Media Communication

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Scientists have been in the media ever since Frankenstein in 1931. Today's youth may not have seen the original movie or read the book, but they have seen cartoon reiterations of the famous classic as the work has inspired numerous ilms, television programs, video games, characters in books and movies. The concept of the "mad scientist" creating a creature, monster, or weapon that eventually falls out of his control, leading to the scientist's eventual defeat or ruin, is a common theme in science-iction and comic books.Draw-A-Scientist protocols have been utilized by science education researchers to investigate learners' perceptions of scientists. This chapter discusses historical perspectives of scientists in the media, the methods for analyzing students' perceptions of scientists and how aspects of their illustrations relate students' perceptions of scientists. The discussion presented here is framed in the context in which young children hold a range of perceptions that are based on cultural inluences, and sometimes these images are limited, and sometimes they compete within the individual. The position of this author is that each of these three are interconnected with the others, support each other, and must be considered along with students' cultural background and science identity if these illustrations are to fulill any promise of its utility for research or instructional purposes.

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“…Although girls may at times be shown to engage in active roles, their femininity too often continues to define them (Taber & Woloshyn, 2011b, Diekman & Murnen, 2004, Jackson & Gee, 2005. For instance, young women in fairy tales typically have been portrayed as beautiful passive victims who need to be rescued by strong males from ugly evil crones (Bacchilega, 1997;Baker-Sperry & Grauerholz, 2003;Parsons, 2004;Trousdale & McMillan, 2003; for discussion of associated complexities see Haase, 2004;Harries, 2001). Heterosexist representations such as these are found in genres as diverse as diary cartoon novels (Taber & Woloshyn, 2011a), horror fiction (Heinecken, 2011), fantastical realism (Waller, 2004), novels about sisterhood (McInally, 2008), and award winning literature (Taber & Woloshyn, 2011b).…”

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“…As she begins the Hunger Games, Katniss is forced to assume characteristics related to feminine beauty ideals (Baker-Sperry & Grauerholz 2003;Wolf, 2002). Baker-Sperry and Grauerholz (2003) argue that stories "convey messages about the importance of feminine beauty not only by making 'beauties' prominent...but also in demonstrating how beauty gets its rewards" (p. 722).…”

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Discourses of Masculinity and Femininity in The Hunger Games: "Scarred," "Bloody," and "Stunning"

Woloshyn¹,

Taber²,

Lane³

2013

International Journal of Social Science Studies

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This article explores how characters in The Hunger Games trilogy are portrayed relative to Connell's gendered discourses of hegemonic masculinity, marginal masculinity, and emphasized femininity. We briefly review the plot of The Hunger Games trilogy and then discuss the ways in which three of the characters are represented with respect to societal gendered discourses, heteronormativity, and the use of violence. We argue that the ways in which these aspects are portrayed relate to the main characters' performance of discourses of hegemonic masculinity (Gale), marginalized masculinity (Peeta), and a complex amalgamation of the two that also draws somewhat on emphasized femininity (Katniss). Finally, we conclude that, while the trilogy could be read as taking a feminist stance with a strong female protagonist, it nonetheless also constrains Katniss in heteronormative ways.

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The Pervasiveness and Persistence of the Feminine Beauty Ideal in Children's Fairy Tales

Cited by 118 publications

References 13 publications

Help seeking for cardiac symptoms: Beyond the masculine–feminine binary

Help seeking for cardiac symptoms: Beyond the masculine–feminine binary

Mixed Messages for Our Next Generation of Scientists

Discourses of Masculinity and Femininity in The Hunger Games: "Scarred," "Bloody," and "Stunning"

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