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Write 6 page essay on the topic Women and Self Esteem.

The woman is regarded as an epitome of beauty, an impeccable mark of aesthetic in the kingdom of god’s creation. She is seen as the complimentary element of his better-half and regarded as his counter-part as well. She is mother, deity, nurse, seducer, wife and above all a human being with the entire potentials equivalent to her male gender. Yet, since ages she has been treated as a second sex, something inferior to men and as an instrument to allure and amuse men. Whereas, feminist discourse and modern poststructuralist discourse very pertinently, put stress on the fact that female body is an instrument to perceive the culture or it is used as the ‘medium of culture’. The argument lies at the locus of the social control for which women can be considered as something transcended from her biological entity. The answer to this inquisition have been satisfied by the action and lives of such great women who has transcended the barrier of limiting themselves to the domestic menial chores and symbol of sexual and biological difference to leave a long lasting impression in the history through their work and exercise of grey matter to the fullest length. The argument of Chris Weedon can be treated as the premise of the discussion going to be further captivated in this essay that will deal with women of self esteem and potential. Weedon argued, ‘patriarchal power rests on the social meanings given to biological sexual difference’ (Kitzinger &amp. Wilkinson, 1995). The body is trained and shaped to bear the mark of age-old historical phenomena of ‘selfhood, desire, masculinity and femininity’. But if this is the only parameter for the judgment potential within a human being then, the women like Mother Teresa, Eva Paron, Joan of Arc, Indira Gandhi, Aung San Suu Kyi or the historical epitome of power, administration and dominance of Queen of Sheba, Queen Elizabeth or Isis would not have been mentioned time and again for being the power centre and successful rulers form various quarters of history. Women and Self Esteem Body of women has been the only significant element since history. From art, literature and in present day’s glitch of visual art and media the body of women has been her only entity. She is somehow always been tried to be limited within the coinage of ‘fairer sex’. In the illuminating article on the feminist psychology, “Mirror Images: Effects of the Standard of Beauty on the Self-and Body Esteem of Women Exhibiting Levels of Bulimic Symptoms” by Lori M. Irving suggested an astonishing study where the thinner models reported a lower rate of self confidence compared to the oversized model. Irving came to a very tight-lipped conclusion that in the present days, media definitely plays a pivotal role in shaping the self-esteem of a woman no matter how much they are exposed to various eating disorders. At this point, the paradigm study of two sisters is the exuberant attempt in prose by Jennifer Weiner in her novel, “In Her Shoes” (Irving, 1990). In the novel, the audience come across thirty years old Rose Feller, a very powerful attorney and secretly passionate to romance and that of romantic novels. She is about to join an exercise class to come in to shape in order to look good. Illusioned about her beautiful looks, she constantly dreams of a man who will sweep her by her feet, fall head over heels in love with her at the same time, she dreams of screwing up her younger sister. Rose’s younger sister is twenty eight years old Maggie, who is exceedingly beautiful though her big-screen stardom career did not prosper.