“Having a non-normative body for me is about survival”: Androgynous body ideal among trans and nonbinary individuals

Body Image ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 39 ◽  
pp. 68-76
Author(s):  
M. Paz Galupo ◽  
Claire E. Cusack ◽  
Ezra R. Morris
Keyword(s):  
Body Ideal

A Culture in Crisis

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erika Fischer-Lichte
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Body Ideal ◽  
The Masses ◽  
Of Greece ◽  
New Devices

Chapter 4 investigates the role of the new image of Greece in the first decades of the twentieth century. ‘A Culture in Crisis: Max Reinhardt’s Productions of Greek Tragedies (1903–1919)’ addresses two problems: first, the new body ideal and its liberation from the restraints imposed on it until then, and, second, the division within society of those who made a cult of their individuality and the rapidly growing masses of the proletariat. While in Reinhardt’s Electra (1903) Gertrud Eysoldt displayed her body as that of a maenad or a hysteric, a number of new devices were developed in Oedipus the King (1910) and the Oresteia (1911), both performed in a circus, which temporarily transformed the masses of actors and spectators into a—theatrical—community. The chapter also discusses Leopold Jessner’s production of Oedipus (1929) as a quest for a ‘philosophical theatre’ (Brecht).

Barre Matters: Hybrid Formations of Ballet and Group Fitness

Somatechnics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-210
Author(s):  
Pirkko Markula
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Production ◽  
The Body ◽  
Material Object ◽  
Group Exercise ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Gendered Identities ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Fitness Industry ◽  
Body Ideal ◽  
Health Eating

Employing a variety of theoretical approaches, feminist researchers have critiqued the fitness industry of its singular emphasis on the impossible, narrowly defined feminine body ideal that is likely to cause more mental (e.g., body dissatisfaction) and physical ill health (eating disorders, injuries) than improve fitness. With the focus on social construction of gendered identities, there has been less problematisation of the materiality of the fitness practices and their impact on the cultural production of the moving body. In this article, I adopt a Latourian approach to seek for a more complete account of the body in motion and how it matters in the contemporary world. A barre class as a popular group exercise class that combines ballet and exercise modalities offers a location for such an examination due to the centrality of a non-human object, the barre, that distinguishes it from other group exercise classes. I consider how exercise practices may be constituted in relation to a material object, the barre, and how the physical and material intersect, historically, with the cultural politics of fitness and dance from where the barre originates. To do this, I trace the journey of the barre from ballet training to the fitness industry to illustrate how human and non-human associations create a hybrid collective.

scholarly journals Ideal Corporal Masculino: Percepciones De Estudiantes Universitarios De Nutrición

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (26) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
María Leticia Bautista-Díaz ◽  
Ana Karen Galván-Juárez ◽  
Itzel Esmeralda Martínez-Fernández ◽  
Alan Javin Álvarez-Ríos ◽  
Rubén García-Cruz
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Body Satisfaction ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Male Body ◽  
The Social ◽  
Body Ideal ◽  
Eating Disorders Symptoms ◽  
Qualitative Phenomenological ◽  
Clinically Relevant Behaviors

Body image is a dynamic entity that includes three components: perceptive, cognitive-affective and behavioral; It is constructed of characteristics such as age, sex and educational level, as well as the ideas established by the context. The interaction between the psychological and the social can lead to the development of clinically relevant behaviors. Thus, the objective of the present investigation was to know the perceptions on the male body ideal of the college students of nutrition. Through a focus group, since the qualitative-phenomenological approach and based on the participants discourse, four categories of analysis were derived. It was found that media (including social networks), cultures, stereotypes and beliefs are predominant factors in the construction of the male body ideal, which is reflected in self-esteem, health, economic, occupational or professional opportunities, and to achieve it, can be developed eating disorders symptoms or muscular dimorphic disorder symptoms. It is conclude that the focus group allows knowing the perceptions related to male body ideal by college students of nutrition, where it was showed that, also the society pressures to achieve that ideal, for example, participants express body satisfaction, but wish to modify their composition, so their beliefs determine what must be done to reach such ideal. Therefore, it is evident the importance of carrying out intervention programs at the primary level in college students, from health psychology.

Masculine Body Ideal Distress Scale--Brazilian Portuguese Version

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Nogueira Neves Betanho Campana ◽  
Maria da Consolação Gomes Cunha Fernandes Tavares ◽  
Viren Swami ◽  
Dirceu da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Brazilian Portuguese ◽  
Portuguese Version ◽  
Body Ideal ◽  
Distress Scale

On the Production of the Body Ideal

2009 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 96-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Véronique Chance
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Body Ideal

scholarly journals The Development of the Internalization of Sociocultural Body Ideals Scale Using Items From the Sociocultural Attitudes Towards Appearance Questionnaire: Validity, Reliability, and Measurement Invariance Testing

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alvaro Sicilia ◽  
Antonio Granero-Gallegos ◽  
Manuel Alcaraz-Ibáñez ◽  
Mark D. Griffiths ◽  
Isabel Sánchez-Gallardo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Temporal Stability ◽  
Body Image Disturbance ◽  
Thin Body ◽  
Invariance Testing ◽  
Psychometric Instrument ◽  
Sociocultural Attitudes ◽  
Body Ideal ◽  
Valid Instrument ◽  
Body Ideals

Abstract Eating disorders and body image disturbance are known to result in unhealthy consequences. When attempting to understand the etiology and management of these disorders, sociocultural models of body image disturbance and disordered eating have been predominant. The objective of the present study was to develop and validate the Internalization of Sociocultural Body Ideals Scale (ISBIS), a psychometric instrument that utilizes items from various versions of the Sociocultural Attitudes Towards Appearance Questionnaire (SATAQ). The ISBIS was developed to overcome some of the limitations found in existing instruments (including the SATAQ) that assess the internalization of sociocultural body ideals. The sample comprised 1130 students aged between 10 and 14 years. The psychometric properties of the ISBIS were examined using different analyses. The results supported the eight-item structure: four items for thin body ideal internalization and four items for thin body muscular/athletic internalization. The structure showed invariance to gender and achieved acceptable internal consistency and temporal stability indexes. Controlling for gender and body mass index, the results also showed that the internalization of the thin body ideal positively predicted social-physique anxiety in a statistically significant way. The results provide empirical evidence that the ISBIS is a reliable and valid instrument for assessing sociocultural body ideals in Spanish preadolescents.

Flabless Is Fabulous: How Latina and Anglo Women Read and Incorporate the Excessively Thin Body Ideal into Everyday Experience

2002 ◽  
Vol 79 (3) ◽  
pp. 712-727 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Robyn Goodman
Keyword(s):  
Focus Groups ◽  
Comparison Method ◽  
Thin Body ◽  
Everyday Experience ◽  
Hispanic Culture ◽  
Attitudes And Behaviors ◽  
Body Ideal ◽  
The Media ◽  
Ideal Body ◽  
Beliefs And Attitudes

This paper examined how Latina and Anglo women negotiate excessively thin, female images in the media. Twenty-four Latina and Anglo women participated in focus groups in which they were asked questions about beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors regarding the mediated ideal body in magazines. Glaser and Strauss's (1967) constant comparison method showed that the women's beliefs and attitudes came from primarily negotiated readings of the mediated ideal, but they had more hegemonic readings with regard to behavior. Furthermore, Latina women's exposure to Hispanic culture, with its alternative feminine ideal, as well as to the dominant Anglo culture, enabled them to resist the mediated ideal more than could Anglo women.

scholarly journals Resealed Erythrocytes as Drug Carriers and Its Therapeutic Applications

2017 ◽  
pp. 459-485
Author(s):  
Prabhakar Singh ◽  
Sudhakar Singh ◽  
Rajesh Kumar Kesharwani
Keyword(s):  
Drug Delivery ◽  
Blood Cells ◽  
Drug Delivery Systems ◽  
Release Kinetics ◽  
Drug Carrier ◽  
Drug Loading ◽  
Drug Carriers ◽  
Delivery Systems ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Ideal

In this pharma innovative world, there are more than 30 drug delivery systems. Today's due to lacking the target specificity, the present scenario about drug delivery is emphasizing towards targeted drug delivery systems. Erythrocytes are the most common type of blood cells travel thousands of miles from wide to narrow pathways to deliver oxygen, drugs and nutrient during their lifetime. Red blood cells have strong and targeted potential carrier capabilities for varieties of drugs. Drug-loaded carrier erythrocytes or resealed erythrocytes are promising for various passive and active targeting. Resealed erythrocyte have advantage over several drug carrier models like biocompatibility, biodegradability without toxic products, inert intracellular environment, entrapping potential for a variety of chemicals, protection of the organism against toxic effects of the drug, able to circulate throughout the body, ideal zero-order drug-release kinetics, no undesired immune response against encapsulated drug etc. Resealed erythrocytes are rapidly taken up by macrophages of the Reticuloendothelial System (RES) of the liver, lung, and spleen of the body and hence drugs also. Resealed erythrocytes method of drugs delivery is secure and effective for drugs targeting specially for a longer period of time. This chapter will explain the different method of drug loading for resealed erythrocytes, their characterization, and applications in various therapies and associated health benefits.

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