“Lady Power”
Nancy Bauer in The New York Times, June 20, 2010
“Me embodying the position that I’m analyzing is the very thing that makes it so powerful.” Of course, the more successful the embodiment, the less obvious the analytic part is. And since Gaga herself literally embodies the norms that she claims to be putting pressure on (she’s pretty, she’s thin, she’s well-proportioned), the message, even when it comes through, is not exactly stable. It’s easy to construe Gaga as suggesting that frank self-objectification is a form of real power.
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The man who drools at women’s body parts is punished, but then again so is everyone else in the place.
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“Lady Power”
Nancy Bauer in The New York Times, June 20, 2010
The Frightening New Normalcy of Hating Your Body
January 12th, 2007 § Comments Off on The Frightening New Normalcy of Hating Your Body § permalink
“Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters”
Martin, Courtney E., Free Press, 2007