Sexism, hostility toward women, and endorsement of beauty ideals and practices : Are beauty ideals associated with oppressive beliefs?

Relationships between the endorsement of Western beauty ideals and practices and measures of hostility toward women and sexism were studied in 159 college men and 194 college women. The participants were predominately 18 or 19 years of age and of European American ethnicity. Correlations were comput...

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Published in:Sex roles 2007-03, Vol.56 (5-6), p.265-273
Main Authors: FORBES, Gordon B, COLLINSWORTH, Linda L, JOBE, Rebecca L, BRAUN, Kristen D, WISE, Leslie M
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic Achievement
Attitudes
Attractiveness
Beauty
Beliefs
Biological and medical sciences
College students
Cultural values
Eating Disorders
Females
Feminism
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Gender Bias
Gender Discrimination
Hostility
Ideals
Individual Differences
Interpersonal Competence
Males
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Resistance (Psychology)
Sexism
Social psychology
Social Responsibility
Social role. Sex role
Western Civilization
Western culture
Whites
Women
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Summary:Relationships between the endorsement of Western beauty ideals and practices and measures of hostility toward women and sexism were studied in 159 college men and 194 college women. The participants were predominately 18 or 19 years of age and of European American ethnicity. Correlations were computed between five factor analytically derived measures of beauty ideals and practices, two measures of the thin body ideal, and the following measures: Hostility toward Women Scale (HTWS, Lonsway & Fitzgerald, 1995), Attitudes toward Women Scale (AWS, Spence & Helmreich, 1978), and the two subscales of the Ambivalent Sexism Inventory (ASI, Glick & Fiske, 1996): hostile sexism (ASI-H) and benevolent sexism (ASI-B). It was found that endorsement of Western beauty ideals and practices was associated with hostility toward women, traditional sexism, hostile sexism, and, to a lesser extent, benevolent sexism. Results support feminist critiques of beauty practices as oppressive. Adapted from the source document.
ISSN:0360-0025
1573-2762
DOI:10.1007/s11199-006-9161-5