The Use Of Visual Imagery On Social Media - 861 Words

There s a movement of feminists who use visual imagery on social media to break the stigmas surrounding body hair. In an extention this reflects and becomes a sign of refusal against dominating power relations between the genders. I will proove this idea talking about the stigmatization of body hair, according to The last taboo – Women and body hair by K. Lesnik-Oberstein. I will clearify the context in which these stigmas are founded with The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf, who argues that the idea of beauty subordinates women and preserves the male dominance (Wolf, 1991, p. 12). By explaining discourse as a subconsious ideology and signified objects as semiotic tools, according to Subculture, the meaning of style by D.†¦show more content†¦And since this is, yet, mainly an online movement that depends on digital functions such as image-sharing and allows for global participance, I will not be site-specific. †Exess hair†, †superflous hair† and †unwanted hair†, is only a small selection of ways we describe women s body hair in the Western culture. In contrast to the hair women keep on their heads, body-hair only tend to be a relevant issue when we re aiming to remove it. But not even in commercials for hair-removal products we re confronted with it: either the unshaved body sections are hidden with foam, or we re exposed to the hairless result of shaving. There is both a verbal and a visual absence of women s body hair in our culture, which could be explained by the taboos that surrounds the subject. It s either too disgusting, shameful and private, or too trivial to bee discussed. ( K. Lesnik-Oberstein, 2006, p. 1 2). Louise Tondeur means that the subject might lost it political relevance after Terry Eagelton s claim †Not all students are blind to the Western narcissism involved in working on the history of pubic hair while half the world s popu lation lacks adequate sanitation and survives on less than two dollars a day†. ( K. Lesnik-Oberstein, 2006, p. 48). Undoubtabley, being groomed is one of the many beauty standards that What has been made clear through each core of my research, is that signified objects and nonverbal symbols is