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The paper "The Feminizing of Eating Disorders and Cosmetic surgery" states that the future of cosmetics surgery and eating disorders to attain the ideal beauty in modern society continues to grow with the development of medical technology and social life.... , plastic surgeons indicated an increase of 288% of cosmetic surgery procedures done to women from 1997 to 2002.... Cosmetics surgery achieves the standards of beauty in modern society....
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Research Paper
This dissatisfaction is more likely to lead to unhealthy dieting practices, extreme bodybuilding, or cosmetic surgery that may be unnecessary and have long lasting negative effects.... English speaking Australia, the United Kingdom, and North America are caught in a paradox as advertisers promote unhealthy eating habits that promote obesity, while the media uses unrealistically ideal body images to sell their products....
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Essay
The paper "Anthropology of Power and Resistance" tells us about the impacts of policy interventions.... The word 'anthropology' is ultimately from the Greek (Anthropos, 'human', plus logos, 'discourse' or 'science').... ... ... ... Central European writers then employed it as a term to cover anatomy and physiology; part of what much later came to be called 'physical' or 'biological anthropology....
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Essay
Like other forms of plastic surgery, liposuction uses medical technology but deals with appearance rather than disease and does not attach a sickness label to the patient.... It has further discussed the long-term risks and benefits of Gastric bypass surgery as this surgery reduced the size of the stomach to limit the amount of food it would hold.... Four factors have made surgery the treatment of choice for many such people....
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Essay
The concern with dieting took on new dimensions in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.... The author of the paper "Ideological Criticism of 'PHAT Girlz'" touches upon the film "PHAT Girlz".... According to the text, PHAT Girlz is a film that seeks to depict that the ideology that defines female beauty based on a body in the western world need not necessarily be true....
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Research Paper
More specifically, the research aims to identify how girls in this age range relate to their own body image by comparing it to their perceived.... ... ... The expectations can only be described as ‘perceived' because there is no evidence that these expectations are actually held by the people the subject is using as her gauge The study will also attempt to identify the ideal perceived body image of each respondent and ascertain how far this is from the individuals' actual body size and their perception of their own body size....
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Essay
This essay focuses on men's point of view vs.... women's about the ideal women's body.... Men do look at models and actresses with lustful thoughts, but that's just because how media has turned our minds towards.... Women go to extremes to look the ideal figure.... ... ... ... Women have been fighting the long-lost battle to get a perfect figure for times immemorial....
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Article
ervasive beauty regimes such as dieting and depilation are dangerous to women wellbeing are seriously damaging women's well being but some new feminists think that these beauty practices are no longer oppressive now that women can choose them.... From this point of argument, cosmetic surgery and body piercing/cutting can be said to be forms of self-mutilation by proxy, in which the surgeons and piercers serve as proxies to harm women's bodies.... This is because today's beauty practices are geared toward benefiting the sex industry, the plastic surgeons, and the fashion and cosmetic industries among many others looking for money in this field....
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Essay