FC lecture series: The Female Body, Self-Image, and Self-Esteem

joelle | February 23, 2009 | Comments (0)

The Feminist Collective is initiating a series of talks on issues related to the female body in its personal, social, and political manifestations. Writer and university teacher Lina Mounzer will be giving these talks, the first of which will take place in the FC on Friday at 7 pm.

We will be exploring issues related to the female body and the regulation of its appearance in all social contexts. As women, we’ve come to take it for granted that we must hate our bodies for one reason or another. Probably one of the most effective global programs of social control has been this internalization, in women, of shame for our bodies. How can we begin to undo all this damage, understand how we are being manipulated and what we have internalized, and ultimately come to own our bodies without shame?

The first talk will tackle how body image is fundamentally related to women’s self-esteem. Subsequent talks will deal with the body in relation to different issues, such as the body and sex, the body and consumerism, and the heterosexual and homosexual female body in relation to heteronormativity (a tag team talk given by Lina Mounzer and anthropologist Rasha Moumneh). The topics will be flexible enough to incorporate the most pressing issues that will be brought up during the discussions.

Because these particular issues touch upon very personal and often difficult aspects of our lives, we have decided to make these sessions open to women only in order to allow them to express themselves more freely.

Space is limited to 25 people only, so please confirm your attendance as early as possible by emailing r.moumneh@gmail.com. For directions to the Feminist Collective, please email n.moawad@gmail.com or call 03-487051.

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