Body Objectification Of Women In Media

  BODY OBJECTIFICATION OF WOMEN IN MEDIA Media is a major reality of our society. Everyone yet influences through it. Media is a preeminent component of popular culture, has the power to depict and then influence the image of a particular topic, institution or profession. All type of portrayal is important for understanding the past easily and people of all ages and identities to see themselves reflected from it, but the representation of women is very important. In the past, women showed submissive, house-bound woman interested in her domestic household works. But in the modern society it has become totally opposite that of attractive object. The woman represents the stereotypically perfect body: flawless skin, thin, perfectly shaped, passive and seductive. The image evidently reinforces the idea of flawless skin and thin body as a main component of women body.           It is argued that when young girls and women observe these objectified messages, ...