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Body image is how a person sees their body. It is all mental. It is not really what a person looks like, but instead how they feel they look. A lot of body image is culturally based by emphasis on beauty. It is how you feel about yourself and how you think others perceive you. Body image is a good topic to study because it offers us some understanding in the world of eating disorders. It helps us to understand why these disorders often form and what we can to do fix them.

There are three waves of feminism. The first wave was women's suffrage, the second wave was equal pay and the thir wave centers on individual movements.

According to Ophira Edut, the definition of a body outlaw is a person that accepts what their body is naturally and doesnt try to conform to what society thinks their body should be. They are rebels, the won't alter their body. Some examples of body outlaws in pop culture today are Queen Latifa, Jennifer Lopez, Chris Farley and even Jessica Simpson. I feel these people are body outlaws because they don't really care what society has to say about them. They are happy with what they were given as a body and they embrace their bodies and are happy to show them off without regard to what others think.

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My name is Jenna and I am from Chicago, IL. I enjoy watching football and Mixed Martial Arts. I myself used to be a kickboxer and also have a black belt in Karate. I will be graduating from the University of Oklahoma this December. I am very excited (it only took me about four and a half years to get here). I chose to take Body Image because honestly I needed a few extra upper division electives and it seemed like it would be interesting enough. I am a psychology and nursing major so I also felt that this class would be a good tie into all of the psychology I have taken of the past four years. I think the most pressing issue of body image is the struggle to achieve this so called "perfection." I put perfection in quotations because I do not feel that one can ever acheive perfection. It is something we strive for. Every girl wants to look like all of the models, every girl wants to be perfect...but even when we reach what we set out to reach there will always be something else we can do to make oursleves that much better. My expectations of this course are simple...to learn why we put so much emphasis on appearance...I also expect to have a good time and learn a lot about myself as well.

Questions I would like answered:
1. Is there such a thing as universal beauty?
2. Is beauty truly in the eye of the beholder?
3. Is it possible to really look past the physical and into the more important aspects of a person?
4. Has body image problems been the same from past to present?
5. Do you still think there will be such an emphasis on body image in the future?