Essays about: "beauty ideal"

Showing result 16 - 18 of 18 essays containing the words beauty ideal.

1. 16. Self-concept of women in advertising across cultures (Russia and Sweden)

   University essay from Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap

   Author : Marina Sotnikova; [2010]
   Keywords : advertising; woman; beauty; visual image; self-concept; cultures; Russia; Sweden;

   Abstract : Self-concept is a very complex structure that includes feelings and beliefs, which people have about them in relations to other people and objects. Many marketers and researchers found that expression of self has a great influence on customer’s buying behavior and defines her attitudes towards products and services that correspond to her self-concept. READ MORE

3. 17. Gender, power, and work in TV-advertisements

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

   Author : Johanna Illergård; [2004]
   Keywords : Sociology; Sociologi; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Advertisements use cultural symbols and myths that exist in society. When women are represented at work in advertisements it often illustrates their subordinate position to men. This illustrates the gender system: how men as a group have more power than women as a group. READ MORE

4. 18. A Study of Art and Aestheticism in Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray

   University essay from Institutionen för humaniora

   Author : Jenny Siméus; [2004]
   Keywords : art; aestheticism; Oscar Wilde; The Picture of Dorian Gray; ekphrasis;

   Abstract : My twofold aim with this essay is, firstly, to examine the ideas about art expressed in the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray by the Victorian author Oscar Wilde. Secondly, I analyse how Oscar Wilde has implemented the philosophy of aestheticism throughout his novel. READ MORE