http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/contemporary-women Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Fri, 22 May 2026 23:12:31 -0400 Fri, 22 May 2026 23:12:31 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/315/obese-female-and-nude-epistemological-satire-or-sociological-critique By Catrise P. Noel - Historically, female models in photographic art have depicted an ideological construction of the female body which women, regardless of stature, ethnicity or class, must conform to. John Berger (1972, p. 46) notes that ‘to be born a woman has been to be born… into the keeping of men’. However, it could be argued that the image presented in this essay dissipates such notions. Leonard Nimoy’s image is compelling; it seems to expulse an aura which embodies feminine nonchalance whilst simultaneously disregarding patriarchal ideology which dictates stereotypical criteria for... Wed, 03 Nov 2010 10:34 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/315/obese-female-and-nude-epistemological-satire-or-sociological-critique