The female body is treated as an object that belongs to everyone in society—except women themselves. Society makes no room for change and rejects transformation. Through age, illness, or pregnancy-all eyes are on you..
Naomi Wolf
«To understand the primal force of this religion, we need to see that men die once and woman die twice. Women die as beauties before their bodies die.»
«A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience.»
«Chastity may be a fetish invented by certain societies for unknown reasons»
«Stretch marks and Cesarean incisions from giving birth are very different from accident, war, and fight scars. They evoke courage without violence, strength without cruelty, and even so, they’re far more likely to be worn with diffidence than bragging.»
Naomi Wolf
Virginia Woolf
Naomi Wolf
Gloria Steinem
Many women poets and writers have voiced their resistance and drawn attention to this issue, so now we have our own manifest.
The beauty industry continues to offer ever more ways to conceal age, allowing women to remain socially acceptable, while medicine still fails to answer the most basic questions about the female body and health — questions that determine life itself, not merely appearance.
Women are constantly expected to live two lives at once, succeeding equally in both: to build a career while maintaining the household; to look beautiful while remaining unobtrusive; to be sexual yet virginal.
Women experience two deaths. The first is the death of their social image and their young beauty, when women become unprofitable, “unusable,” no longer desirable within the system. The second is physical.
Women experience two deaths. The first is the death of their social image and their young beauty, when women become unprofitable, “unusable,” no longer desirable within the system. The second is physical.
A girl becomes a woman, gaining her own rights and the ability to make her own choices — and yet society continues to control her.
“To take a girl’s virginity” — it is striking how society frames a term of power and possession as something sacred, after which a woman is seen as less valuable, less pure, and ultimately less presentable. This has nothing to do with a person or personal choice, but with an object that can be owned and managed.
“To take a girl’s virginity” — it is striking how society frames a term of power and possession as something sacred, after which a woman is seen as less valuable, less pure, and ultimately less presentable. This has nothing to do with a person or personal choice, but with an object that can be owned and managed.
Pregnancy may seem to be one of the most socially acceptable states for a woman, and yet even here women are subjected to numerous fears.
Physical and mental recovery after childbirth remains deeply stigmatized. Society is not prepared to accept a new body, even after a process as complex and demanding as bringing a new human being into the world.
Physical and mental recovery after childbirth remains deeply stigmatized. Society is not prepared to accept a new body, even after a process as complex and demanding as bringing a new human being into the world.
«Whatever is deeply, essentially female-the life in a woman's expression, the feel of her flesh, the shape of her breasts, the transformations after childbirth of her skin-is being reclassified as ugly, and ugliness as disease.»
«It is a radical move to embrace the stories written into our skin as works of beauty rather than flaws»
The female body is beautiful, strong, and inspiring. In recent years, so many words have been spoken about freedom and the diversity of all women, however again and again we must assert our autonomy. The body and its transformations are art, history, and incredible magic — something to be proud of.
a female body
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