Women and Their Bodies the Term Paper

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Anyone who chooses to engage in this expensive and controversial surgery for the sake of a boyfriend should consider the real motivation behind his asking and her acquiescence. The surgery may not deliver on what it promises and the sense of inadequacy is psychological and may not abate because of a cosmetic change. I would also include the truth that there is no such thing as the perfect vagina and we should be willing to love what we have and accommodate difference.

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The concept of beauty was different for different groups, White girls considered beauty as a static quality that is personified in the Barbie doll. African-American girls espoused a concept of beauty as the result of the intersection of multiple qualities, attitude, style, personality, and presence form the basis of this nexus. For African-American girls there is no perfect or uniform look to attain, therefore their body image concepts are more malleable and given to personal reinterpretation.
African-American and Latin American women were less inclined to desire to become thinner and did not focus on weight as an indicator of beauty. The image that African-American and Latin American women adopt allows for greater variance than the image that White women adopt. This is exemplified in the finding that spirituality forms part of the African-American woman's conceptualization of beauty. The participants were considered their body as God's temple and as such, they were more inclined to accept their bodies as without modification. The lyrics of the India Aire song also seem to underscore this vision of the spiritual nature of the body that allows for greater variation in body types to be considered beautiful. You do not need to be a supermodel to be beautiful once your attitude, style, and spirit are correct you are truly beautiful......

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