Background:
Name: Aphrodite – Very attractive and feminine name as it comes from the Goddess Aphrodite, who was seen as the Goddess of beauty, love, pleasure and procreation, all thing that are seen to represent women.
Age:21- In American the age 21 is the age where someone is considered legally an adult.The number also suggests time, which connotes youthfulness.
Gender: Female
Sex: Heterosexual- Appearance is sculptured to appeal to the male gender.
Ethnicity: African(Congolise) Caribbean
Languages: English,French, Creole
Megan Good’s face and chest was chosen because men and boys especially in the African, Caribbean and American society find her attractive,due to her well sculpted feminine features, and distinctive lady attributes that make her very feminine.
Rihanna originates from the exotic country Barbados (St. Micheal), where it’s hot and women are seen to have beautiful skin, and bodies. And many have commented that Rihanna has “amazing legs”.
Keke Plamer represents youthfulness, as the characters she plays, are young, active and humorous, giving out a youthful vibe. This is also presented through her smile, and it’s a superstition that the more you smile the younger you stay, and Keke smiles a lot.
Ciara is re-owned as a singer/dancer, but mostly for her dancing. And dance adds a soulful touch to our ideal woman’s identity, as dance is a big aspect in her African culture. For example tribes in Africa like the Zulu tribe perform dance rituals before and after battles, and others during wedding celebrations, as it expresses strength of clans, or love for another. This is important because music is seen as the window to the soul.
Queen Latifa represents real ordinary day women, because she is not model thin but curvy, and she takes pride in her body shape, which give our ideal woman character, presenting her as not superficial.
Rosa Parks was chosen because she is inspirational, as she stood for her rights and challenged the role society tried to put her in, presenting idea that women can be strong minded.
Another strong and powerful woman is Beyonce’s alter ego Sasha Fierce, who portrays an independent fierce black woman, which is what our ideal woman should portray; as in society female’s are presented as below men in the hierarchy table,and as a results generally they make more money and have more power than women. But Beyonce earns more than most men and is also a powerful image in the music industry, especially due to her marriage with rapper and producer Jay-z This presents the idea that women need a man to gain power, but her alter ego Sasha Fierce is all ‘bad’ (powerful) all by herself, as Beyonce is seen to have said that it takes over her making her an entirely different person.
Black is Beautiful…..Is the concept went for when putting together ideal woman…
Our ideal woman is of a black ethnicity, who are not commonly considered as beautiful dating back from the 40’s, where the black majority were slaves, and persecuted. And now in the 21st century this idea of black not being considered beautiful is coming back, as the mainstream industry has made it that when a celebrity hits a certain fame they ‘lighten’ their skin to appeal more to society, especially as their main audience are of a white ethnicity,as their are the majority that go to their concert (as images below show) and buy their albums. However society has recognised black women as beautiful as they’re more accepted. and now they’re more integrated couples of different races than they was in the 40’s. This shows that representations changes over time, therefore representation is influenced by culture.
Overall the image of our ideal women identity focuses on gender role as a female, which fluctuates from conforming to society traditional ides of women having to look beautiful all the time, to relying on male figure, to a being a strong willed minded independent female. And therefore agree with one of Judith Butler’s argument that gender identity is constructed from cultural aspects, because it’s due to the suffragettes who fought for women rights, that women now have more opportunities therefore more power. Also culture has influence, because in some cultures people still chose to conform to the old traditions where daughter belongs to father, who marries them to who he wants, while if that same family was to come and live in America or England that would change, do to peers, and laws of that country. So Gender identity is constituted from social aspects.
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