Analysis Of Beauty Pageants

Zawn Villines is a journalist for GoodTherapy.org. In this article Zawn Villines talks about the effects beauty pageants can have on young girls. For example, Beauty pageants can cause all sorts of problems to young girls that will eventually involve as they grow up, or continue a career in the modelling business. Problems that can occur to young girls include, eating disorders, body image distortion, sexualisation of young girls, unhealthy choices, etc. Looking at more detail within the article, it also includes reasons why parents (usually mothers) allow their daughters to participate in an unnecessary competition. A professor at the University of Arizona M. Martina elaborated her opinion on the reason why parents allow their daughters to

I choose this article as part of my sources because it explains in great detail about real life events going through beauty pageants and descriptions on what they have to do to be successful. There is a lot of history in this article that can help improve my report. For example, the study talks about the history of when beauty pageants began and the requirements to enter, the study also talks a little bit about JonBenét Ramsey who was a young pageant contestant and her insight on beauty pageants, as well as other resources in the article to consider. Lindsay Lieberman is the author of the journal article Protecting Pageant Princesses: A Call for Statutory Regulation of Child Beauty Pageants. Within this article, it best summarizes in specific detail on the consequences young girls can have long term and short term when going through beauty pageants, and finding a protection plan to make beauty pageants safer for young girls to compete in. The argument that is considered, no young girl that competes in a beauty pageant should have to go through “pageant dangers” H.R. (2010). 18. Pg.741. that can affect upon their

I choose this journal article as one of my sources for my report because the article explains different key information in specific detail on beauty pageants, and compares beauty pageants to real lifestyles. By using sources from this article, there is interesting information about what young girls must do to win for their mothers, example, flirting, winking at the judges, as well as how beauty pageants have a different view today, from the way it used to be back in the 1950’s. The authors of the report APA Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls include E. Zurbriggen, R. Collins, S. Lamb, T.A. Roberts, D. Tolman, L. Monique Ward, and J. Blake. This report summarizes theory, and research behind sexualization of American girls and real life experiences that have occurred towards the sexualization of young girls. The arguable statement towards this report is that older girls in America promote themselves to a type of media where they become a non-example towards younger females as what to look like – how to dress, how you should wear your make-up, etc. For example, as a young girl is connected to the world of beauty pageants, they would be inspired and encouraged to wear printed slogans as T-shirts outside of their pageant world, such as “eye candy” or “wink wink” Cook &Kaiser.