Ideas about presenting info about gender inequality in beauty and aging?

this is for my sociology of gender class and there's some information about the gender inequality of beauty in regards to aging, but i just don't know how to present it to the class and what kind of info. i was thinking powerpoint and maybe some magazine ads to show aging, but i need more ideas. any suggestions is needed.Ideas about presenting info about gender inequality in beauty and aging?
You might present the thesis that the age/ gender factor was created by the commercial market. It is fairly easy to find the number of ways youth and gender play a role in advertising. That approach alone would be more material than you could possibly use. I have included two sites below that might help. One will give you the history of labelling beauty and the second one with ways that have been used to determine what attracts. If you google ';beauty versus handsome';, there are several sites that might be helpful. Watch TV and record in some way how commercials constantly bombard the public with these ideas.


You might also bring out the aspect of a male dominated society in the field of business which helped create all of this.





http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/im鈥?/a> Some good pictures are shown here for aging.


http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/im鈥?/a> Some images for beauty.





http://www.fiu.edu/~harrisk/The%20Origin鈥?/a> origins of beauty


http://www.weattract.com/ASPhysBeautyInE鈥?/a> interesting experiments with beauty as relates to the marketplace


Additional article with helpful info:


http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/1097鈥?/a>Ideas about presenting info about gender inequality in beauty and aging?
Patrick Stewart was named sexiest man alive some years ago by some pop culture magazine. When was the last time a woman of his years was valued for her beauty? I would just gather as many examples from media that tend to support the theory that women are objectified and sexualized more for their youth and men more for their strength/confidence.
are you going after mother nature
I love the strength I have found in older women. They seem to come into their own as their men retire. I could name about 50 gorgeous women over 50 here without stopping to think without having to resort to the movie industry's Goldie Hawn, Oprah, Diane Canon, Tina Turner, etc. etc. I think Laura Bush is beautiful and her confidence makes her magnetic.


I fell for that ';old saw'; about men aging much better than women, then I started looking around me, and it just ';ain't so!';


Maybe you need to start your premise from a different perspective. I have also noticed that women bounce back more effectively and quicker when they lose a job, and are far more likely to start their own business after the age of 50 which is not so typical of the men I know.
you can discus the difference on how aging is perceived, If a man get a gray hair he is called distinguished, if a woman get a gray hair she is old and ugly, she let her self go? if a man gains weight he is husky or big boned? a woman is just fat. if a man loses his hair no one will notis, if its a woman it a tragic and sad. if a guy does not dress up its because hes a man, if a woman does the same thing she is just tacky and wrong.
you could always find the Dove campaigns on youtube and embed some clips. They discuss the beauty industry through an Anti Marketing -Marketing campaign. They appeal to the better sense of the consumer but in that they are telling you that they are the only ones who care so you should support them. They have a lovely ageing product line called 'pro aging' which isn't anti aging... so it must be for the self esteem right?? onslaught is the video, the most recent one anyway.


Just analyzes some pics, and discuss what they ads are really saying... jean kilbourne's killing us softly 3 talks about beauty and ads and media... clips are on youtube as well. hope this helps