Women’s Struggle for Identity through Appearance

How does the writer explore their thoughts and feelings through identity? Germaine Greer talks more or less demands that are made upon women to change their bodies in order to look pleasing to the eyes of others. This idea that women should look a certain office and that there is tho one right way. She explores the women of both the working class and the middle class and the way they struggle for identity through appearance. Greer explores her thoughts and feelings though identity by the lend oneself of language. She uses words such as grossness and curvaceous to describe womens thoughts about their bodies.It almost seems like Greer is Just talking about the pressure for women to conform. She doesnt describe in a way that shows she disagrees bodily fluidh womens thoughts about their bodies and the pressure to counter their bodies in order to fit in to the two categories curvy or thin. She talks about how the curvy girl who ought to be thin and the thin girl who ought to be curvy . Greer is trying to give a target the message that womens struggling with appearance in order to have the perfect consistency is a never ending cycle. You can be curvy or thin but the pressure to change your body never fades.She mentions how a woman is adapt herself to appeal to buyers market. Greer suggests that women are all going through this in order to catch the attention of males. She uses the terms tailoring and buyers. This idea that women are pressured to change their bodies in order to look pleasing to men. She goes on to say that this buyer is likely to be the husband, whose causes her for her image. She describes women as passive objects of males. I think Greer is trying show the sad verity of women women are the ones who keep succumbing to this pressure to change their image.They are insecure and are constantly trying to change themselves. She states that womens bodies are treated as aesthetic objects without function this causes vituperate to their bodies and th e owners. Greer talks about this idea of the body meeting the soul and a stereotype being born. I think shes trying to get a cross this idea that women have this fantasy about beauty, she continues on to mention to her belongs all that is beautiful even the word beauty itself. She writes about how nature exists only to bring in a women appear more beautiful.For example she says flowers die gladly so that her skin may uxuriate in their essence. I think shes trying to get across the idea that this fantasy that women have is also what is making them succumb to the pressure. This idea of a womans weakness being her beauty is also explored in the simulated military operation Street car named desire by William Tennessee. He introduces the character of Blanche whos similar to the women mentioned by Greer. Blanche doesnt want to accept the fact that her beauty is fading. At one point her babe Stella asks her husband to compliment her on her appearance. She mentions its her weaknesses.In the same way as these omen described by Greer, Blanche is using her beauty and sexuality to capture male attention. She understands and seems to accept that she has to keep her beautiful image in order to find a male suitor. reers idea ot nature existing to make women beautitul links well wit n the novel Beloved by Toni Morrison. In the book the character of beloved is described with having skin as smooths as babies. Beloved is naturally beautiful in the same way that Greer described nature making women beautiful. The fantasy of beauty the Greer described beloved seems to possess.