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15.12.2023
Ugly, obscene, subversive: Grotesque Women in the Media
New blog article by Theresa Krampe
The media exert a significant influence on body images. They confirm cultural ideals of beauty, disseminate idealised images and influence social norms and values. This article will focus on how the grotesque, repulsive, obscene body, of all things, can contribute to breaking down such powerful representational conventions and questioning normative ideas of femininity.