Influence of hair texture, skin tone, and body shape on disordered eating among black women

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charnel N. Hollier ◽  
Lisa B. Haileab ◽  
Ashley Hill
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Disordered Eating ◽  
Body Shape ◽  
Skin Tone ◽  
Hair Texture

Sister Style

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadia E. Brown ◽  
Danielle Casarez Lemi
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Women Politicians ◽  
Skin Tone ◽  
Women's Bodies ◽  
Deep Dive ◽  
Women Candidates ◽  
Phenotypic Profile ◽  
Gendered Identities ◽  
Candidate Evaluations ◽  
Hair Texture

Sister Style: The Politics of Appearance for Black Women Political Elites centers Black women’s bodies, specifically their hair texture and skin tone, to argue that phenotypic differences among Black women politicians directly impact how they experience political office and how Black voters evaluate them. The book brings together an interdisciplinary, multi-method, and blended epistemological approach of positivism and interpretivism to ask whether African American women’s appearances provide a more nuanced lens through which to study how their raced-gendered identities impact their candidacies and shape their political behavior. The authors take a deep dive into intersectional theory-building, through which they examine the intra-categorical differences among Black women. They find that Black women vary in their political experiences because of their appearances, and that dominant, Eurocentric beauty standards influence the electoral chances of Black women. They observe that skin tone and hair texture, along with the historical legacies that have shaped the current cultural and political contexts, dictate Black women elites’ political experiences and voter evaluations of them. The book asks the following questions: What do the politics of appearance for Black women mean for Black women politicians and for Black voters who evaluate them? What are the origins of the contemporary focus on Black women’s bodies in public life? How do Black women politicians themselves make sense of the politics of appearance? Is there a phenotypic profile into which most Black women politicians fit? What is the effect of variation in Black women’s phenotypes for candidate evaluations? And how do voters process the appearances of Black women candidates?

Melanin and Curls: Evaluation of Black Women Candidates

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 259-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danielle Casarez Lemi ◽  
Nadia E. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Black Male ◽  
White Women ◽  
Skin Tone ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Women Candidates ◽  
Discrimination Hypothesis ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Hair Texture ◽  
Positive Effect

AbstractResearch on candidate evaluation has delved into questions of how voters evaluate women candidates, Black male candidates, as well as how candidates’ appearances may condition electoral opportunities. Combined, this scholarship has tended to focus on how race, gender, and skin tone privilege or undermine evaluations of Black male or White women candidates. We intervene to study Black women candidates and draw on research on colorism and Black women's hairstyles and ask: How does variation in skin tone and hairstyle affect Black voter evaluations of Black women candidates? We develop and test two hypotheses: the empowerment hypothesis and the internal discrimination hypothesis. We mostly find support for the latter. Importantly, we find that the interaction of dark skin and non-straight hair has mostly negative effects on Black men and women's trait evaluations, but a positive effect on Black women's willingness to vote for the candidate. Furthermore, this research shows that hair texture is an important aspect of responses to Black women candidates—hair is not just hair for Black women candidates. This research shows that understanding the effects of candidate appearance on voter behavior necessitates considering the intersection of racial and gender phenotypes.

scholarly journals Weight-based stigma/discrimination and disordered eating: exploring the mechanisms in obese adults and normal-weight undergraduates

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aliza Friedman
Keyword(s):  
Disordered Eating ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Emotional Eating ◽  
Body Shape ◽  
Normal Weight ◽  
Elevated Risk ◽  
Female Undergraduate ◽  
Obese Adults ◽  
Obese Female ◽  
Explanatory Mechanism

Individuals who experience stigma/discrimination on the basis of their weight are at an elevated risk for disordered eating; however, the specific associations between various facets of weight-based stigma/discrimination with disordered eating and the mechanisms underlying this association remain unclear. To address this conundrum, the current study examined the relations between three components of weight-based stigma/discrimination with binge/emotional eating, as well as potential psychological distress mechanisms of these relations, in obese female bariatric surgery-seeking patients and predominately normal-weight female undergraduate students. Results revealed that individuals who reported concerns regarding experiencing weight-based stigma, perceived that they have been discriminated against on the basis of their weight, and/or internalized anti-fat attitudes were at an elevated risk for binge eating across both samples. Body shape concerns emerged as the most relevant explanatory mechanism in the relation between weight-based stigma/discrimination and disordered eating across both samples.

scholarly journals Shadism from the Perspective of Intersectionality in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 222-227
Author(s):  
Ahmed Seif Eddine Nefnouf
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
African American Women ◽  
Skin Tone ◽  
Racial Group ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Her Family ◽  
Intersectionality Theory ◽  
Bluest Eye ◽  
Women And Girls ◽  
New Vision

This paper aims to discuss shadism from a perspective of intersectionality and how people with a darker skin tone suffered particular forms of discrimination due to the issues of shadism and its interaction with the class, gender, age, ability, and race.  Shadism has infused the black society for many centuries, hence outlined during slavery. Shadism is the discrimination against a person with a darker skin tone, typically among individuals of the same racial group. In The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison describes how African American women and girls like Pecola are considered ugly by her family and the community due to her darker skin tone. in this research paper we are going to explore shadism and examine intersectionality theory like race, gender, sexuality and class, and their influence on dark-skinned black women, through the main character Pecola Breedlove. Using intersectionality theory to understand shadism helps to know that there are different ways a person could face oppression and domination. This paper gives a new vision of shadism which have been studied as amatter of racism, but throughout the intersectionality of the the identity component. The analysis shows that shadism is influenced by race and other aspects of intersectionality such as gender, race, age and ability, and other aspects of identity.

scholarly journals Strong, female and Black: Stereotypes of African Caribbean women’s body shape and their effects on clinical encounters

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Andrews ◽  
Sheila Greenfield ◽  
Will Drever ◽  
Sabi Redwood
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Body Shape ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Clinical Encounters ◽  
Minority Ethnic Groups ◽  
African Caribbean ◽  
Moral Weakness ◽  
Minority Ethnic

The aim of this article is to explore how tendencies to stereotype minority ethnic groups intersect with lay discourses about them in ways that can reproduce cultural prejudices and reinforce inequalities in access to services and health outcomes. Drawing upon Black feminist and cultural studies literature, we present a theoretical examination, the stereotypes of the Black woman as ‘mammy’ and ‘matriarch’. We suggest that the influence of these two images is central to understanding the normalisation of the larger Black female body within African Caribbean communities. This representation of excess weight contradicts mainstream negative discourses of large bodies that view it as a form of moral weakness. Seeking to stimulate reflection on how unacknowledged stereotypes may shape clinical encounters, we propose that for Black women, it is the perception of strength, tied into these racial images of ‘mammy’ and ‘matriarch’ which may influence when or how health services or advice are both sought by them and offered to them. This has particular significance in relation to how body weight and weight management are/are not talked about in primary care-based interactions and what support Black women are/are not offered. We argue that unintentional bias can have tangible impacts and health outcomes for Black women and possibly other minority ethnic groups.

Testing a Culture-Specific Extension of Objectification Theory Regarding African American Women's Body Image

2008 ◽  
Vol 36 (5) ◽  
pp. 697-718 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taneisha S. Buchanan ◽  
Ann R. Fischer ◽  
David M. Tokar ◽  
Janice D. Yoder
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African American Women ◽  
Body Shape ◽  
Skin Tone ◽  
Objectification Theory ◽  
American Women ◽  
Path Analyses ◽  
Theoretical Predictions ◽  
Shape And Size ◽  
Habitual Body

Objectification theory has emphasized objectification in terms of body shape and size. African American women may expect to be evaluated on additional physical attributes such as skin tone. Therefore, we extended previous research on objectification theory by adding separate measures of skin-tone concerns in a survey of 117 African American women. Results from a series of path analyses revealed that as hypothesized, habitual body monitoring of skin tone predicted specific skin-tone dissatisfaction as well as general shame regarding body shape and size. Contrary to theoretical predictions, self-objectification did not mediate links between habitual monitoring (of skin tone or of body size and shape) and body dissatisfaction. In terms of objectification theory, results suggest that skin tone is a relevant dimension of habitual body monitoring and dissatisfaction for some African American women.

Body Size and Body Shape: Perceptions of Black Women With Diabetes

1999 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 382-388 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leandris C. Liburd ◽  
Lynda A. Anderson ◽  
Timothy Edgar ◽  
Leonard Jack
Keyword(s):  
Body Size ◽  
Black Women ◽  
Body Shape

scholarly journals Mental Health Symptoms Related to Body Shape Idealization in Female Fitness Physique Athletes

Sports ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (11) ◽  
pp. 236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Therese Fostervold Mathisen ◽  
Jorunn Sundgot-Borgen
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Disordered Eating ◽  
Body Shape ◽  
Eating Behaviour ◽  
Young Female ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Mental Health Symptoms ◽  
Drive For Muscularity ◽  
Health Symptoms ◽  
Optimal Health

Physical activity relates to optimal health, still the prevalence of mental health issues is high among athletes. Being young, female, and competing in aesthetic sports is a high-risk combination for mental health symptoms. Fitness physique athletes (FA) match this profile but are understudied. We aimed to study the intensity of mental health symptoms (i.e., body image, eating behaviour, relation to and routines for exercise, and perfectionism) in FA and in female references (FR), and to evaluate how preparing for fitness sport competitions affects these mental health symptoms. Before competition, FA had higher levels of drive for leanness (DFL) and eating restraint compared to FR. At the time of competition, eating restraint increased in FA only, concurrent with a reduction in symptoms of disordered eating. The levels of DFL, drive for muscularity, eating restraint, and exercising for figure toning were higher in FA compared to FR. At one-month post-competition, the differences between groups from competition time remained. Generally, perfectionism correlated with eating restrictions in FA and with disordered eating in FR. Overall, FA coped with the dieting, but self-control deteriorated post-competition with higher levels of disordered eating and an increased body shape concern. High DFL generally associated with more disordered eating behaviour, specifically in FR.

scholarly journals Body dissatisfaction as a predictor of disordered eating behaviors in undergraduate women: an integrative review

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. e661997513
Author(s):  
Anna Carolina Franco ◽  
Rubia Carla Formighieri Giordani
Keyword(s):  
Body Dissatisfaction ◽  
Disordered Eating ◽  
Body Shape ◽  
Eating Behaviors ◽  
Eating Habits ◽  
Integrative Review ◽  
Disordered Eating Behaviors ◽  
Undergraduate Women ◽  
Final Sample ◽  
Undergraduate Female

This study aimed to investigate whether there is a relation, as well as its configuration, between the dissatisfaction with body image and the occurrence of disordered eating behaviors in undergraduate female students. For this purpose, an integrative review was conducted in the Lilacs, Scielo, PMC and PubMed indexed databases in January and February 2019, by means of DeCS and BVL terms: feeding/ eating behavior, college/ university students, body dissatisfaction, and eating habits. The search resulted in 433 references with a final sample of 21 articles, which underwent summarization, and evidenced not only that body dissatisfaction is a potent component for the adoption of high-risk eating habits, but also that women face great social pressure regarding their weight and body shape.

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