Certificate of Achievement
Mary Templeman Hogg - O'Rourke
has completed the following course:
Perfect Me: Understanding the Beauty Ideal
This course has explored the features of the beauty ideal. It has examined the role of ‘normal’ and how the ethical language of beauty defines the way we think and act. It also discussed the rising global demands of beauty and what we can do together to reduce the pressures to be perfect.
2 weeks, 3 hours per week
Professor Heather Widdows
John Ferguson Professor of Global Ethics
University of Birmingham
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Identify and understand why the emerging global beauty ideal has the features of an ethical ideal
- Describe the four defining features of the emerging beauty ideal
- Explain the process by which the modified body is becoming normalised and why this adds to the rising demands of beauty
- Investigate how the global ideal is narrowing and homogenising and the differences between a global ideal and previous beauty ideals
- Reflect on how the causes of a demanding global ideal are complex and include the rise of a visual and virtual culture and the technological imperative
- Explain why Body Image Anxiety and other consequences of a more demanding ideal need to be regarded as a public health issue
Syllabus
- What is an ethical ideal and how is beauty an ethical ideal
- What are the features of the beauty ideal
- The role of ‘normal’
- Why does the beauty ideal give rise to a duty to be beautiful
- Are beauty ideals converging globally?
- What are the drivers of the global beauty ideal
- Is there a global epidemic of body image anxiety?
- How can the future be better?
Issued on 19th September 2019
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