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Bibliography for Body Privilege

DeFrancisco, V.P., Palczewski, C.H. & McGeough, D.D. (2014). Gender in Communication: A critical introduction. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc.

Demirtürk, E. L.(2009). Black Bodies, White Gazes: The Continuing Significance of Race (review). MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S. 34(4), 221-222. Oxford University Press. Retrieved February 23, 2016, from Project MUSE database.

Honigman, A. F., (2015). A known beauty: Models-turned-artists challenge beauty privilege. Fashion Theory, 19:5, 617-636, DOI:

10.1080/1362704X.2015.1071070

Keleher, P. (2009). Mary, mary, why ya' bulgin': Power, privilege and the construction of the gay muscle body (Order No. MR53676). Available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. (305040469). Retrieved from https://ezproxy.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com.ezproxy.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/docview/305040469?accountid=6766

Kwan, S. (2010). Navigating public spaces: Gender, race, and body privilege in everyday life. Feminist Formations, 22(2), 144-166. Retrieved from https://ezproxy.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com.ezproxy.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/docview/822737846?accountid=6766

Othman, J.A. (2015). Constituting gender locating the body. Journal of Gender Studies. 24(6), 634-643. doi:10.1080/09589236.2013.866036.

Samuel, L. (1997, Jul 31). Beauty & the bank: Mary kay offers women power, privilege and pink cadillacs. Hues, 3, 35. Retrieved from https://ezproxy.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com.ezproxy.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/docview/200469530?accountid=6766

Shu-Yueh, L. (2014). The Effects of Cosmetic Surgery Realty Shows on Women's Beliefs of Beauty Privileges, Perceptions of Cosmetic Surgery, and Desires for Cosmetic Enhancements. American Communication Journal, 16(1), 1-14.

Stubblefield, A.(2008). Revealing Whiteness: The Unconscious Habits of Racial Privilege (review). Hypatia 23(2), 190-193. Indiana University Press. Retrieved February 23, 2016, from Project MUSE database.

Van Amsterdam, N. (2013). Big fat inequalities, thin privilege: An intersectional perspective on ‘body size’. European Journal of Woman's Studies. May 2013 (20) 155-169. doi:10.1177/1350506812456461.

Starter Article

I am also in the group of students that needs to create a page because their is not a page for body privilege already created. I will start out with a simple definition of body privilege as stated in our textbook (DeFrancisco, Palczewski & McGeough, 2014). After that, body privilege can be broken down into sections of beauty, race, or gender body privilege.

Body privilege can be caused by beauty. It has been proven that beautiful people have more opportunities such as in their careers. They can often rise higher than their not as attractive counter-parts simply by being more attractive. I could also discuss 'thin privilege' here and quote: "One such difference in orientation towards body size emerges when we explore beauty and health discourses from a racial/ethnic or non-western perspective. Several scholars have pointed out the positive value that is attached to fatness in non-western (mainly African and Afro-Caribbean) cultures because of the association of a large body size with health, wealth and fertility (e.g. Popenoe, 2004; Sobo, 1997). Some scholars have argued that with the dispersion of non-western ethnic groups to western countries through slavery and migration, non-western/Black normativities regarding body size have come to the West. Hughes (1997), for example, describes how for older Black (African American) women in the US larger body size is preferred over slenderness" (Van Amsterdam, 2013). This shows that body privilege is different in many different cultures.

Race can also be a subheading for body privilege. As we have learned in class, the typical ideal of a beautiful woman is white, thin and blonde. In this section I can quote parts of the articles (which may change as I do more research):

"white privilege is a very difficult process that may never be complete for any particular individual. Nonetheless, she refuses to accept any view of the unconscious or of habits that set them up as not subject to transformation. For Sullivan, the belief in the possibility of ending racism altogether is a crucial part of transforming habits of white privilege. To accept the inevitability of racism is to give up in advance and, in effect, to embrace white privilege" (Stubblefield, 2008).

“confiscated [it] within social spaces of meaning construction” (4), refusing to provide the black body with dynamic subjectivity. Racism, revealed by nervousness on the part of the white body, not only traps the black body in blackness, but also confines the white as “a prisoner of her own historically inherited imaginary and the habitual racist performances that have become invisible to her” (19). The white body, feeling secure in the social location of whiteness, marks the black body as dangerous (Demirturk, 2009).

Body privilege can also be seen different between men and women. This could be proven by citing my articles (Othman, 2015), (Shu-Yueh, 2014), and (Kwan, 2010).

My other citations that I have not quoted in my article I will either find quotes for the final article or I plan on using their information but paraphrasing it for the article.