{"id":32696,"date":"2011-02-03T10:35:26","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T15:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=32696"},"modified":"2013-11-14T06:18:10","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T11:18:10","slug":"bodies-as-fashion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/02\/03\/bodies-as-fashion\/","title":{"rendered":"Bodies as Fashion"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nValerie A. sent along a short video by Chris Muther, at the Boston Globe<\/em><\/a>. \u00a0He offers a humorous history of changing bodily ideals for both men and women. \u00a0 He explains the shifts as rebellion against our parents and what they found sexy. I find this explanation uncompelling, though. You?<\/p>\n

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See also our recent post on bodily diversity among Olympic athletes<\/a> and our fashion fantasy in which everyone emphasized whatever (weird) bodies they were born with<\/a>.<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Valerie A. sent along a short video by Chris Muther, at the Boston Globe. \u00a0He offers a humorous history of changing bodily ideals for both men and women. \u00a0 He explains the shifts as rebellion against our parents and what they found sexy. I find this explanation uncompelling, though. You? See also our recent post […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[218,2103,2102,253],"class_list":["post-32696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bodies","tag-gender-bodies","tag-gender-history","tag-history"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32696"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59144,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32696\/revisions\/59144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}