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Q In "Designing Women" Gagne & McGaughey explore the effects of cultural hegemony on women's desire for mammoplasty. One of the key areas for understanding why women seek elective cosmetic surgery is the concept of "false consciousness". Define this term and explain how it influences women.In "Designing Women" the authors explored how women's perceptions of "ideal beauty" were influenced by their own perception of whether or not they could achieve or approximate this "look"(214). How have you personally conformed (or not) to this concept? Define Body Privilege. Define body consciousness. Define body management. Now using those definitions from the previous questions, consider Kwan's study of "Navigating Public Spaces." How do you, personally, navigate public spaces in terms of body privilege? What are your privileges? How does this impact your "space" in our society?

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Foucault’s has a popular concept of exercise of power and on the other hand the Gramsci’s concept is known as the concept of hegemony. Here the cultural hegemony is being referred. There are concepts and cultures and also the concepts which can be explained through cultures. Various types of aspects of culture can be seen through the formation of the cultural hegemony. The cultural hegemony is a concept which depends on the aspects of the control or dominance on women. The women who want to get their beauty through a cosmetic surgery are pressurized unconsciously by the male gaze of the society. How a man wants to see the woman somehow becomes more important that everything.