Objectification and Self-Objectification of Women in Current Society

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.200428.126How to use a DOI?

Keywords

objectification, female stereotype, women’s self-objectification, social media, self-efficacy

Abstract

This paper aims to analysis and explains that the objectification of women in society makes women begin to objectify themselves, which leads enormous negative impacts on women’s identity. Specifically speaking, when the reality becomes that people only valued how women look, many women choose to accept it and try their best to adapt to it through physically changing themselves. For example, they use photoshopping apps like Meitu to revise their facial structure, putting on garish makeups, or doing the plastic surgery (the sentence is too long). Without considering all the negative impacts those ways of changes may bring about, many women yearn for catering to the dominant culture of society that tends to objectify women/highlight women’s looking. This study elaborates the issue of self-objectification into three perspectives—impact of social media, peer pressure, and the diversity definition of beauty. It also brings up the theorem of self-efficacy to explain why improving and strengthening self-confidence and self-understanding can be the best way to change the problem of self-objectification.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yifan Wang
AU  - Yanrong Li
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/05/01
TI  - Objectification and Self-Objectification of Women in Current Society
BT  - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (ICHSSR 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 583
EP  - 586
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200428.126
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200428.126
ID  - Wang2020
ER  -