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Medicalization of Racial Features: Asian American Women and Cosmetic Surgery.
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Medicalization of Racial Features: Asian American Women and Cosmetic Surgery.
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Medicalization of Racial Features
Central Argument
• Examination of cosmetic surgery, focused towards Asian American Women
• Socially induced phenomena of blepharoplasty also, known as double eyelid surgery and rhinoplasty
• Why do Asian American Women undergo Cosmetic Surgery?
• There are cultural and institutional factors that pushes Asian American Women to get surgery...
What are these factors???
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• Racial prejudice: stereotypes of racial physical features
The Arguments that is being made by Eugenia Kaw...
•Societal construct of Gender Ideology/Stereotypes
• Racial ideologies and Internalized racism/stereotypes
Cultural and Institutional forces that motivates Asian American Women to get cosmetic surgeries...
•Western Medical system and scientific rationality
Ideas that are around gender and sexuality being made in the article
• Gender stereotype rooted from patriarchal standard
- Standard of beauty
-Beauty over character and intelligence
• Intersects with racial ideology/stereotype
- Association of negative traits about racial feature created by the dominant culture of Western popular culture
• The medical system, an institutional force that contributes with reproduction of these ideologies that continually oppress Asian American Women.
Patricia Hill Collins
Significance to Course
- interlocking system of oppression
- race, gender, social and economical issue
- privilege
- white women already possess naturally the look that some asian women desire
West and Zimmerman- concept of doing gender as a routine and recurring accomplishment
- upkeep looks and have certain features- gendered a woman
Reproducing heteronormativity
Connections
- patriarchal view- identity based on body
- attractive for males
- women as passive and awaiting a male
Martin's Egg and Sperm- culture bleeds onto everything else
- negative western culture and institutional stereotypes
- dullness, passivity and unsociable
- internalize stereotypes
Race and Racialization
Susan Burdo's- Body possesses power and is a site of meaning within culture
-negative traits
- natural features with dullness, passivity, being a “book worm”
Connections
- Internalize a body image produced by the dominant culture
- attractive= rewarded
- less sleepy look= better chance of getting a job and finding mate
Women in sport
-Women's identity should be closely connected to her body and appearance
- sexualized women's sport attire
- Please the male gaze - hertonormativity
Impact on Health and Sport
Health implication
health risks
-"bleeding," "hematoma," "hemorrhage," formation of a "gaping wound," "discoloration," scarring, and "asymmetry in lid folds" (Kaw, pg 84, 1991)
Health
- gender norm of women to look beautiful
- "beauty hurts"
- use medical terms to make the shape of the eyes sound problematic- define it as a medical condition
Why does this matter?
This matters
- exposes danger of following idea of perfection/beauty from white western society
- associates certain facial features with negative stereotypes
- furthers our understanding by
- showing the predominate ideal of female beauty
- based on patriarchal and sexists views
Implications
1
Personal
- become victims of low self-esteem
- feeling alienated among friends
- leading to bullying
2
Cultural
3
Political
- The negative stereotypes
- Prostect of marriage
- Trying to fit into western culture
Implications
- fewer women in politics due to being judged
- lack of representation in effort to make changes
- regulate cosmetic industry
4
Social
- Fewer chances for jobs and promotion
- low social status
Discussion
Do you believe doctors or surgeons are necessarily intentionally attempting to promote this racial/sexist ideology, or are they simply allowing the oppression to persist to generate income for their service?
Do you believe Asian males, or any other race of males or females fall victim to a similar negative racialization? If so to what degree?
Beside cosmetic surgery, what other ways do racial minorities try to mold and shape themselves to live up to the standard of the western society that should be recognized and further talked about?
Discussion con't
Do you think if a white person (or any other race) were to live in another country with a different race, would they have plastic surgery to fit in or better their life there?
What would happen and how would society react if it were reverseved? Would it be racist if a western/white women wanted to unfold their eyes (monolids) or shave off thier nose bridge to look more ethnic?