An extract from the book that I found related to my project were quotes from ‘Dr.Randal Haworth in a Vogue interview, “I don’t have a problem with women who already look good who want to look perfect.” Perfect. When did “perfection” become applicable to a human body? The word suggests a Platonic form of timeless beauty-appropriate for marble, perhaps, but not for living flesh. We change, we age, we die’ (Bordo, 1959, p. xvii). It can be said that women who already look good are still looking for ‘perfection’ and are unsatisfied with their already good looks. Could this be because of what they read and see in the media? The plastic surgery industry helps women and men to change their appearances un-naturalistically using surgery, instead of trying to enhance their natural beauty a naturalist way, e.g. exercise or other non surgical products. These days surgery can change almost any part of your body if one desires to go down that route. Below is an interesting photography of a woman which is labelled with all the plastic surgery she has undergone.
It can be said that in the world we live in the obsession of beauty or for those looking for it has evolved over the years, ‘It’s hard to imagine a world where idealized female imagery is not plastered everywhere, but our current situation is a relatively new phenomenon. Before the mass media existed, our ideas of beauty were limited to our own communities.’ I found this quote from the online article ‘Body Image: The Media Lies.’ It discusses how the mass media has a large influence on depicting ‘beauty’ and what it is and how this has advanced over the years.
Bordo, Susan. (1959) Unbearable Weight: Feminism, West culture, and the body. California: University of California Press.
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