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self-awareness Visualizing Selfhood (surveyed vs. surveyor (Berger: you…
Visualizing Selfhood
surveyed vs. surveyor
Berger: you are a person being surveyed by another person who is surveying you, balance, an equal amount of look and being looked at (a white man's concept)
Picturing Frederick Douglas: people of color apply to a completely set of rules in terms of the surveyed vs. surveyor concept "second sight" and "double consciousness"
- another white man concept, visualizing the self as "material, spiritual, and social"
- for people of color the concept is transfigured to "material self my point of view, material self how I am seen, spiritual self my point of view, spiritual self how I am seen, social self my point of view, social view how I am seen
- therefore; surveyed as I am, surveyed as I am seen, surveyor as I see, surveyor what I am expected to see as a person of color
- Frederick Douglas recognized this and made a point to be surveyed by others as close to his true self image as possible (i.e. photographed with a serious and intense look/stance to emphasize his intention of being seen the same way to other people of color and white people alike)
also Berger: men act women appear #
Wharton: women's responsibility to keep up her image physically (dress, gracefulness) and public image (being married or even a widow or divorcee)
- how can women be both surveyed and surveyor when their purpose is to be surveyed by others to determine their worth and social standing
- proving 'surveyed vs. surveyor' is a white man's concept
- Lily's only concerns were about what surveyors would see when they looked at her
- when Lily looked at other women she took note or critiqued the way they presented themselves to surveyors
- Lily's role and women's role in general as a true surveyor doesn't exist
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beauty standards
Kleeman: a beauty product to make girls beautiful "inside and out" includes eating a live dove (savagery of beauty standards)
- hyperbole of the lengths women go to in modern society to achieve beauty and meet standards
- non exaggerated examples include; using chemicals on your hair and letting it penetrate your scalp, ripping hot wax to remove hair, injecting needles into the face to look youthful
- also Kleeman: the pony tail of hair that was cut off and presented as a gift was an extension of self, everything attached to a women takes on her identity and represents a life of it's own (medusa) #
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