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General News: The Meaning of Beauty Examined
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| Dr. Victoria Pitts-Taylor will present a lecture on Tuesday. |
March 06, 2011
March 8th marks the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, which was created as a result of worldwide campaigns for women's rights to work, vote, and to hold public office as well as to end discrimination.
While women have won many advances in society during the last century, they still do not earn the same pay as men and in many places they don’t have the same access to health and education.
To keep a focus on the need for more progress for women, every year on International Women’s Day thousands of events are held around the world to push for more change and to celebrate achievements.
Here is Orange County, a thought-provoking lecture about how our image of beauty interacts with the growing cosmetic surgery industry is being offered at SUNY-Orange on Tuesday evening.
Dr. Victoria Pitts-Taylor, a sociology professor at CUNY Graduate Center and a resident of Highland Mills, will make a presentation on the social aspects of cosmetic surgery.
Drawing on years of research, her personal experience with cosmetic surgery, analysis of newspaper articles and television shows, as well as in-depth interviews with surgeons, psychiatrists, lawyers, judges, and others, she brings new perspectives to the medicalization of "surgery addiction," the moral and political interrogation that many patients face, and feminist debates on the topic.
Dr. Pitts-Taylor is the author of In the Flesh: The Cultural Politics of Body Modification and Surgery Junkies: Wellness and Pathology in Cosmetic Culture. She is the Coordinator of Women's Studies at CUNY and Director of its Center for the Study of Women & Society. She also has been honored with an Advancement of the Discipline Award from the American Sociological Association.
Cultural Affairs at SUNY Orange County Community College is presenting this lecture in partnership with the Orange County Citizens Foundation. Click here for details on the event time and location.
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