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Page 1: The Eye of the BeholderThe Eye of the Beholder Sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Wilmington Science, Humanities and Society Minor, the College of Arts and Sciences and

The Eye of the Beholder

Sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Wilmington Science, Humanities and Society Minor, the College of Arts and Sciences and the Center for

Teaching Excellence

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Announcing a New Course in Science, Humanities and SocietyFall 2003

Bearing our wounds: Gendered images of health and illness in art, film and literature

Dr. Colleen Reilly Dr. Gregory BechtelTR 2-315 PMLakeside 134

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The PanelJack Hall, Moderator

• Don Furst• Midori Albert• Sue

Richardson• Tommy Macon• Kathleen

Berkeley

• Betsy Ervin• Maurice Martinez• Carrie Clements• Oliver Speck• Gregory Bechtel• Patricia Turrisi

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What is beautiful?

Don Furst

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Botticelli's Madonna and Child, 1475

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Rembrandt's The Flayed Beef, 1655

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The War I: Wounded by Otto Dix, 1924

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Willemde Kooning's

Woman I,1950-52

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Beauty & Anthropology:

Pretty much a Biocultural Point of View

Midori Albert

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What constitutes beauty, anthropologically?

• Physical and behavioral indications of good health– Adaptation– Mate Selection (Sexual Selection)– Aspects of beauty stem from biologic

and cultural determinants…

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What constitutes beauty, anthropologically?

Physical and behavioral indications of good health:

• Biologically– Symmetry and balance

• Culturally– Local, regional, or global

aesthetics

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What constitutes beauty, anthropologically?

Physical and behavioral indications of good health:

• Biologically– Vitality and functionality

– Social acceptanceand awareness

• Culturally– Resourcefulness: talent,

productivity, skill

– Normative personality attributes, social integration

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Women of Color Set the Tone

Sue Richardson

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Toni Morrison, “Afterword,” The Bluest

Eye

Beauty was not simply

something to behold;

it was something one could do.

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Antithetical Black Beauties

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Now that’s black beauty!

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Giorgione, Concert Champêtre(“Pastoral Concert”) c. 1510

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these hips are free hips.they don’t like to be held back.

Lucille Clifton, “Homage to My Hips”

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Nikki Giovanni, “Nikki-Rosa”

. . . though you’re poor, it isn’t poverty that

concerns you . . . I really hope no white person ever has cause to write about me

because they never understand Black love is Black wealth . . .

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. . . something one could do . . .

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Mammy’s red petticoat

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Beauty is not natural

Tommy Macon

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Hope in a Jar

Kathleen Berkeley

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Women, Beauty, and Work: A Combustible Combination

Betsy Ervin

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BFOQ: Bona FideOccupational Qualification

PBQ: ProfessionalBeauty Qualification

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Social Consequences of the PBQ

•Women shrink their professional goals to fit the discriminatory requirements of the workplace.

•Women blame themselves for discrimination on the basis of appearance.

•Women are materially and psychologically impoverished by the quest for beauty.

•Women remain isolated from one another

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Maurice Martinez

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Beauty is as Beauty Does

A Psychologist’s Take on the Beast

Caroline Clements, Ph.D.

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Person Perception

• Person Perception– the process of forming impressions– more weight placed on negative than

positive• If you value honesty, finding out that

someone you just met is planning to cheat the IRS will count more in your evaluation of her than knowing that she is also a successful executive.

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Facing Faces

Perrett, et al., 1998

Subjects preferred feminised to average shapes of a female face.

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It’s all in the hips

Waist-to-hip Ratio

Waist-to-hip Ratio

Waist measurement ÷hip measurement (e.g. 24/36 = .67)

Similar in men and women before puberty (0.85 to 0.95)

Which do you prefer?

Top Row = “underweight”Middle Row = “average”

Bottom Row = “overweight”

Plots of attractiveness as a function of BMI and WHR,

Tovee, et al., 1998

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Person Perception and AttractionBeauty is and is not Skin Deep

• Competence:– Competent people are more attractive than

less competent individuals. • However, people are less attracted to “perfect”

individuals (Aronson et al., 1966).

• Physical Attractiveness:– Especially early on, physical beauty is

important to an attraction.• Mutual Liking:

– Liking others increases the probability that they will like us in return.

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The Case for Beauty

• Success• Romance• Financial• Power and powerful others

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Oliver Speck

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The I of the Beholder

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The I of the Beholder

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All that Glitters is Not Gold

Gregory A. Bechtel, MPH, PhD

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Self-Perception of Beauty• A 29-year-old female weighing

353 pounds elected to have gastric bypass surgery because previous interventions were not successful in reducing required weight loss.

• Within one year of the surgery, she had lost 216 pounds and had achieved an optimal weight of 137 pounds.

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Beauty Realized• However, the client

experienced major emotional, physical, dietary, lifestyle, financial and relationship changes that were neither fully explained nor realized prior to the surgery.

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The American Fix• Emotional changes

– Mood swings• Lifestyle changes

– Lack of prior social experiences

• Relationship changes– Discrimination

disappears; hostility reported

PhysicalSkin sagging, contact dermatitis, body odors

DietaryRadical dietary changes

FinancialInsurance often only pays for the bypass surgery

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Nonstandard

Patricia Turrisi

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True beauty is an approach to perfection.

Beautiful things represent transcendence over the ordinary.

The appreciation of beauty is anthropomorphic.

The sensibility and character of the observer conditions the experience of beauty.

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Thank you foryour attention.

Please joinus for

refreshments.

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Announcing a New Coursein Science, Humanities and Society

Fall 2003

Bearing our wounds: Gendered images of health and illness in art, film and literature

Dr. Colleen Reilly Dr. Gregory BechtelTR 2-315 PMLakeside 134