{"id":1810,"date":"2021-11-16T13:59:23","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T18:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/?page_id=1810"},"modified":"2021-12-15T13:46:23","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T18:46:23","slug":"shania-gonzalez","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/shania-gonzalez\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cGreat Big Nose and Fat Legs:\u201d Feminists Push Back Against Conventional Beauty Standards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Second Wave feminism and its use of poetry enabled women to engage in a dialogue about their insecurities that stemmed from conventional beauty standards. Feminist writers such as Nellie Wong and Marge Piercy used poetry to take ownership over their emotions and discovered a widespread feeling of ugliness and a lack of self worth shared by many women. They realized how much control mainstream media had over a woman\u2019s perception of her own beauty, and how while looking inward, she felt the perpetual need to fix herself. Empowered by this realization, feminist periodicals such as <em>Amazon Quarterly\u00a0<\/em>in the 1970s and 1980s began to challenge and reconstruct the beauty standards that were in place to define women. This project contrasts how women\u2019s beauty was portrayed in mainstream publications, such as <em>Vogue<\/em> and <em>Ebony<\/em>, with how feminists were defining themselves in their own publications as a result of the mindset shift caused by the movement.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013\u2013Shania Gonzalez<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/gonzalez\/beauty-standards-for-white-women-in-the-mainstream\/\">Beauty Standards for White Women in the Mainstream<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/gonzalez\/beauty-standards-for-black-women-in-the-mainstream\/\">Beauty Standards for Black Women in the Mainstream<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/gonzalez\/the-longing-to-be-white\/\">The Longing to be White\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/gonzalez\/fat-liberation\/\">Fat Liberation\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/gonzalez\/barbie-beauty\/\">Barbie Beauty\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/gonzalez\/redefining-beauty-in-feminist-media\/\">Redefining Beauty in Feminist Media<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Second Wave feminism and its use of poetry enabled women to engage in a dialogue about their insecurities that stemmed from conventional beauty standards. Feminist writers such as Nellie Wong and Marge Piercy used poetry to take ownership over their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/shania-gonzalez\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2649,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1810","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1810"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3052,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1810\/revisions\/3052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}