Podcasts about professor heather widdows

“For most people in the real world, their experience of beauty is that it is a moral ideal.”— Professor Heather WiddowsWe live in a world that is obsessed with appearance. Social media filters allow young people to create personal images far removed from reality, plastic surgery “trends” pop up almost seasonally, and we increasingly conflate our self worth with how well we conform to societal beauty standards. For many people, achieving aesthetic beauty is virtuous — consider the guilt that we can feel when we skip the gym, put on a few pounds, or run into an acquaintance while having a bad hair day… or the way that we may judge others for doing the same.What is the fallout from our current cultural preoccupation with beauty, and how can we uncover a healthier sense of self?This instalment of the Living Jewishly Podcasts is an episode of Crossing the Sea, a podcast about mental health. In this episode, Dr. Elliot Malamet speaks with Professor Heather Widdows, British philosopher, John Ferguson Professor of Global Ethics at the University of Birmingham in Birmingham, England, and co-writer of the Beauty Demands blog. This discussion covers the moral and ethical implications of our focus on the external, as well as its effects on our mental health. “We've moved from the cut of the dress to the cut of the breast.”— Professor Heather WiddowsThis‌ ‌episode discusses:‌ ‌How the digital age has shifted the way that we engage with beauty ideals The role that capitalism plays in creating or emphasizing aesthetic “problems” Questions regarding individual agency and control around objectification ‌  Highlights:‌ ‌00:51  Intro03:18  Beauty as a moral ideal05:14  Has beauty always been so important?07:03  Normalization of beauty practices09:05  Beauty & capitalism10:52  Origin of beauty standards12:25  Pretense of diversity13:53  Women's individual agency  16:17  Where youth receive beauty ideals19:34  Dominance of image & being camera-ready23:33  Control v. objectification29:32  Living with contradiction31:32  Beauty & age34:15  Men & beauty36:27  Ideal selfhood39:39  Final takeaway41:13  ConclusionLinks:‌ ‌ Beauty Demandshttps://beautydemands.blogspot.com The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble To Get Inside Our Heads by Tim Wuhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/234876/the-attention-merchants-by-tim-wu My Body by Emily Ratajkowskihttps://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250817860/mybody To get in contact or learn more about Living Jewishly:  Visit‌ ‌our ‌website: https://livingjewishly.org  Follow us on Instagram: @living.jewishly  Watch us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO2YEegjapKpQeXG6zh6tzw   or send us an email at hello@livingjewishly.org.    Shalom!

Hello! Welcome to a bonus episode of Body Cons. If you’ve listened to our previous series of Body Cons you might notice this episode sounds a little different. This is because we’ve been making the podcast remotely while it’s not possible to travel the country together to have these conversations. Hopefully you’ll forgive the less than perfect sound quality of ...

I'm joined by Professor Heather Widdows to discuss beauty as an ethical ideal. We cover the benefits and costs of an increasingly globalized ideal of beauty, the limitations of current liberalism, and how to theorize shame and humiliation. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PoliticalPhilosophyPodcast Store: https://teespring.com/stores/political-philosophy-podcast

Professor Heather Widdows talks about her book Perfect Me and the campaign it has inspired called #Everydaylookism

Professor Heather Widdows knows a thing or two about body image and our innermost desires, so we asked her what would we see reflected in the mirror... www.birmingham.ac.uk/fantasticresearch

What's the Handmaid's Tale got to do with body image? Do we have a moral duty to be beautiful? Nadia and Jade share a short talk by Dr Laura Hart and and hear from Philosophy Professor Heather Widdows. Let us know what you think https://twitter.com/car_UWE To find out more about CAR: www.uwe.ac.uk/car For more on Professor Heather Widdows: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/philosophy/widdows-heather.aspx https://twitter.com/ProfWiddows For more on Dr Laura Hart: https://twitter.com/Laura_M_Hart https://www.latrobe.edu.au/psychology/staff/profile?uname=LHart https://www.latrobe.edu.au/psychology/research/research-areas/clinical-and-health-psychology/embodied To buy Heather’s Book ‘Perfect Me’: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Perfect-Me-Beauty-Ethical-Ideal/dp/0691160074/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1529412154&sr=8-3&keywords=perfect+me Beauty Demands Blog: https://beautydemands.blogspot.com

Moral philosophy of beauty - Professor Heather Widdows discusses the connection between beauty and philosophy, how beauty affects people's lives and if there is any truth in that old saying, beauty is only skin deep.