Enhanced Lipocontouring of the Arms

The visibility of arm contour in both men and women has been a source of discussion throughout time. Arm strength and athleticism is not limited to the male physique only. Iconic women such as Madonna and Michelle Obama have made discussions about arm contour more and more commonplace. Over the years arm contour has been a difficult area to address due to the thinness of the skin which often required surgical excision and unsightly scars. Liposuction of the arm has advanced to not only allow for improved contour but also options of refining muscular definition. With the addition of energy-based technologies such as radiofrequency, we can offer less invasive options to patients who may have previously only been candidates for excisional procedures. Liposuction of the arms can be performed under local anesthesia. This chapter introduces a new algorithm for assessment and treatment of arm contour which incorporates newer energy-based devices along with surgical options.

Birthing Black Mothers

In Birthing Black Mothers Black feminist theorist Jennifer C. Nash examines how the figure of the “Black mother” has become a powerful political category. “Mothering while Black” has become synonymous with crisis as well as a site of cultural interest, empathy, fascination, and support. Cast as suffering and traumatized by their proximity to Black death—especially through medical racism and state-sanctioned police violence—Black mothers are often rendered as one-dimensional symbols of tragic heroism. In contrast, Nash examines Black mothers’ self-representations and public performances of motherhood—including Black doulas and breastfeeding advocates alongside celebrities such as Beyoncé, Serena Williams, and Michelle Obama—that are not rooted in loss. Through cultural critique and in-depth interviews, Nash acknowledges the complexities of Black motherhood outside its use as political currency. Throughout, Nash imagines a Black feminist project that refuses the lure of locating the precarity of Black life in women and instead invites readers to theorize, organize, and dream into being new modes of Black motherhood.

POSITIVE POLITENESS IN “OPRAH’S 2020 VISION TOUR” HOW REASONS AND FACTORS INFLUENCED THE CHOOSING OF STRATEGY

Politeness can be said to be very sensitive interpersonal act carried out by someone in the form of a threat of the acting politely or not. Positive politeness influence greatly influence the attitudes and behaviors carried out by someone. Attitudes and behaviors in positive politeness are reflection of a person’s character to be good or not to others. The aimed of this research is to give an example in order to prioritize using positive politeness when speaking in any situation, including talk shows. The data were taken from the utterances in every conversation that Oprah Winfrey said with her guests. Conversation data is transcribed into written data. And analyzed qualitatively based on conversations between Oprah Winfrey and her guests Michelle Obama in Oprah’s 2020 Vision Tour Talk Show. The positive politeness strategy aims to minimize the distance between Oprah Winfrey and her guests which is expected to create a sense of comfort when talking on the talk show. There are 8 strategies found in this data that categorized as positive politeness, they are: Exaggerate (interest, approval, sympathy with hearer), intensify interest to the hearer, seek agreement (to find and try to approval by the opponent said), avoid disagreement, presuppose/rise/assert common ground, joke (make a joke), be optimistic, include both the speaker and the hearer in the activity, and give (or ask for) reason. This research also founds that payoff and circumstances become factor on why the speaker use certain positive politeness strategy. Circumstances which are found in this research are relative power and social distance.

Language as Action: A Discourse-Stylistic Analysis of Mood Features in Michelle Obama’S Final Speech

This paper aims to examine the stylistic effect of the mood features in Michelle Obama’s final address to the Americans. Anchored on Systemic Functional Linguistics and Discourse Stylistics, it basically focuses on the mood structures and the modality types registered in the speech. The findings disclose that the then U.S. first lady relies more on declarative mood and deontic modality to convey her message. The study thus infers that in her final message to her country citizens, Michelle Obama concentrates on action clauses and behaves as advisor towards women and men, as well as young and adults.

The return of Rosie the Riveter: Contemporary popular reappropriations of the iconic World War II image

ABSTRACT The iconic image of Rosie the Riveter played an important role in American patriotic ideological processes during World War II. Aimed at the recruitment of women for wartime work, particularly in factories and traditionally masculine occupations, this representation of a woman in overalls and head scarf, with sleeves rolled up, showing her bicep and balled fist, declaring 'We can do it', has been a contentious point of discussion for its significance in feminist agendas since its first appearance. While building on, and playing to, the suffrage agendas of first wave feminism, the popular image of Rosie was transcended by second wave concerns about depictions of women in the workplace, such as those in films like Norma Rae (Ritt 1979), Silkwood (Nichols 1983), North Country (Caro 2005) and Made in Dagenheim (Cole 2010). But Rosie is making a comeback. The image has recently been appropriated in various ways and for various purposes - naively, ironically, satirically, as bricolage, pastiche and in sexualised portrayals - to represent contemporary women's issues and concerns, as well as arguably forming part of a backlash culture against feminism. Contemporary depictions have, for example, ranged from Hilary Clinton, Sarah Palin, Michelle Obama, Malala Yousafzai and Beyoncé. This paper considers the development and transformation of the image of Rosie the Riveter and its contradictory (re)-appropriations in various contemporary popular cultural discourses. Keywords: feminist expression, Michel Foucault, gender roles, popular culture, Rosie the Riveter.

A láthatóság joga Michelle Obama Így lettem című önéletrajzában

Michelle Obama Így lettem (Becoming) című önéletrajzírása 2018-ban jelent meg, a kötet kb. 400 oldal szövegét 63 darabból álló képmelléklet illusztrálja. A könyv a szerző társadalmi láthatatlanságának leküzdéséről szól. A dolgozat a szövegben és a fotómellékletben vizsgálja a láthatatlanság leküzdésének megvalósulását. Azt elemzi, hogyan viszonyulnak a képek a főszövegben megfogalmazott történethez. A főszövegben az elbeszélő hang jelentéskonstruáló szerepe a címben szereplő „létrejövés” (magyar fordítás: így lettem). Az elbeszélő „létrejövésének” folyamata alapvető témája az afroamerikai önéletrajzírói hagyománynak. Az elbeszélő énkonstrukciója narratív és vizuális performativitásnak eredménye. A képeken az énkonstrukció hangsúlyozottan női: előtérbe kerül a női test (a ruha, a mozgás, a mimika, a smink), valamint a hagyományos női privát szférába tartozó cselekvések (gyereknevelés, kertészkedés, főzés, lakberendezés, jótékonykodás, gyógyítás, sport) közéleti szerepe. A dolgozat amellett érvel, hogy a képkockákon konkrét küzdelem folyik a társadalmi láthatóságért. A „láthatóság jogának” nevezett hatásmechanizmus során a hagyományos privát szféra elemei társadalmi kezdeményezésekké alakulnak és hatékonyan ellenszegülnek az amerikai publikus szféra afroamerikai nőkre vonatkozó leegyszerűsítő és ellenséges képi sablonjainak. A dolgozat tézise szerint Michelle Obama önéletrajzában a képek a szövegnél határozottabb módon állnak ellen az amerikai publikus szféra rasszista sztereotípiáinak, amikor társadalmi kérdések keretében mutatják be Michelle Obama privát életének elemeit.

Fer justícia a partir de les xarxes socials

Obiageli Ezekwesili, exministra d’Educació de Nigèria, va impulsar la campanya internacional #BringBackOurGirls per a reivindicar l’alliberament de 276 xiquetes segrestades pel grup terrorista Boko Haram al nord-est del país. L’acció va tenir una enorme repercussió internacional i personalitats com Michelle Obama o Angelina Jolie van sumar-se a la campanya. Hui en dia bona part de les xiquetes són lliures, però la vulneració dels drets de les dones continua.