Emily Martin's The End Of The Body
When one modifies something about themselves to embellish on a new aspect of personal identity they are participating in body adornment. Either to redecorate one’s outer body, intensify dignity, use an ideogram of status or act as a form of cultural symbolism. In feminist anthropology, we learn how femininity is wrapped up in aesthetics. I will link how women having tattoos has become a form of resistance and expression which reign societal stigmas. Embodiment is a reflection of self through bodily self-consciousness. Life and culture as we know it is interpreted as a subjective experience to illusion. Emily Martins article, The End of the Body inspires the concept of “flexible bodies”, which applies to the Canadian society. Emily Martin addresses
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In turn, this sprung new ideas and forms of literature done by women. Later came the emergence of anthropology of women. The predominance of the male in postmodern societies made it hard for women to embellish their contributions to literature. With the rise of artificial aesthetics in mass media, questions were being raised about how the body is understood. Using tattoos on women as an example, it was formerly seen as an outbreak of body adornment during the androcentric era. This raised questions if it has become a form of resistance for women. Tattoos, for women, were seen as an expression which reigned societal stigmas and disallowed for further excess to the body. Women, through anthropology, further studied the body taking vengeance in their writing on the illusions of gender neutrality. Illusions best understood as plastic surgery, dieting and cosmetics. Which were not simply attempts to normalize control and beauty, but how to “discuss the body”. Using the tattoo example, proves that tattooed women had struggles to provide a standard in contemporary western society. By means of revolution, the scrutiny that women were subjected to in a predominantly male civilization, links the participation of body modifications in order to serve
In turn, this sprung new ideas and forms of literature done by women. Later came the emergence of anthropology of women. The predominance of the male in postmodern societies made it hard for women to embellish their contributions to literature. With the rise of artificial aesthetics in mass media, questions were being raised about how the body is understood. Using tattoos on women as an example, it was formerly seen as an outbreak of body adornment during the androcentric era. This raised questions if it has become a form of resistance for women. Tattoos, for women, were seen as an expression which reigned societal stigmas and disallowed for further excess to the body. Women, through anthropology, further studied the body taking vengeance in their writing on the illusions of gender neutrality. Illusions best understood as plastic surgery, dieting and cosmetics. Which were not simply attempts to normalize control and beauty, but how to “discuss the body”. Using the tattoo example, proves that tattooed women had struggles to provide a standard in contemporary western society. By means of revolution, the scrutiny that women were subjected to in a predominantly male civilization, links the participation of body modifications in order to serve