Research @ Flintridge Sacred Heart

Caroline Chase 20' (journal article) The study of Pennell and Behm-Morawitz analyzed “the effects of sexualized female characters in superhero film on women.” They conducted studies on some women in a Midwestern university. They showed the women shots from Spiderman and X-Men where the women in the film were either showed as a sexualized damsel in distress or an oversexualized heroine. They predicted that, upon seeing these clips, the women would have their self-esteem lowered and have a more acute sense of self-objectification. They indicated through previous research that US action films commonly exploit women for their bodies in a film rather than focusing on who they are as people. The authors took into consideration the rejection of the usual value in modesty, yet they found through their study that women did indeed have a higher consciousness of their bodies after viewing the oversexualized women in action movies. This article shows with a sample group an example of f...

C erys Davies 20' (journal article) The source starts off by introducing the culture of strippers and the impact it has on society. The author, Silcock, makes a point to show that strippers have been industrialized to a certain point. But before anything, she defines stripping as “ erotic dance for payment, which may take place either at a private club, public bar, or in the form of a 'strip-o-gram' where the dancer goes to the client/s” (Silcock). There is so much coverage of this culture in mainstream media, from movies to music. Strippers seem to be everywhere. There was even been a recent movement of people taking pole dancing classes as a hobby along with the influence of “stripper-wear” in everyday fashion. But Silcock is quick to acknowledge the different views of stripping, “ Radical and Marxist feminists are opposed to all forms of sex work, positioning it as part of male oppression and the sexual division of labour. The more liberal and pro-choice f...

Olivia Pieterse 20' (journal article) This article, titled Food Assistance Programs and Child Health, discusses various food assistance programs, specifically SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), and how these programs should be altered to further benefit those who partake in the National School Lunch Program.  In addition to discussing SNAP, Gunderson also mentions other programs, such as WIC (Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children), NSL P (free- and reduced-price National School Lunch Program), and the SBP (free- and reduced-price School Breakfast Program. He talks about the purpose of these programs and how they were established to both decrease food insecurity and improve children’s health; however, Gundersen also explores how these programs can sometimes have a negative effect on certain groups of people, sp ecifically those in low-income communities. It focuses both on the positive and negative effects of these programs...

Olivia Pieterse 20' (journal article) This article, titled From Charity to Security: The Emergence of the National School Lunch Program, discusses the creation and formalization of the national school lunch program. It also showed how the national lunch program would not be a federal issue if not for World War II and the Great Depression. The article begins by providing the reader with general information about the early beginnings of the school lunch program in addition to stating what the rest of the article will be about. The article continues to describe how the United States created its own system influenced heavily by other nations, specifically Great Britain. The author relates Great Britains’ lunch system with the Boer War and relates the U.S. system with World War II.  The article then transitions and goes into detail about the beginnings of the national school lunch program. The first account of a feeding program in the US was at the Children’s Aid Society...

Cerys Davies 20' (journal article) This source compares two different accounts of strippers and connects them to the  emotional work that is stripping. Lerum, the author, does not give an opinion of the matter, merely presents the information and leaves it to the reader to decipher their own opinion. She starts by describing the book G-strings and Sympathy: Strip Club Regulars and Male Desire by Katherine Frank. This book is particularly interesting because it gives a lot of insight into the people that actually attend these strip clubs who are predominately heterosexual men. Frank makes a clear line of reasoning to the fact that these heterosexual men “are willing to spend their money on such a public, voyeuristic (although interactive) fantasy” (Lemur). Lemur evaluates how Frank exposes male privilege to be the cause of the success of the stripping industry. Frank “cautions against concluding that men go to strip clubs simply to r...