Just as important is creating alternative visual images that don't subscribe to the standard. Over the past twenty years, feminist studies have repeatedly revealed the way in which women's bodies serve as a site of masculine control. The way women's bodies are socially-constructed has helped perfect social control strategies for all bodies. Differences in dress reflect power differentials between the genders. Biology became equivalent to madness.
All cultures have norms and standards for behavior and appearance.
These standards are inextricably linked with social and economic oppression and must be addressed in this context. These standards are part of a hegemonic discourse that allows little diversity of acceptable body 23 types. It seems easy to dismiss the body and standards of appearance as a trivial matter when it comes to social control and to contend that the real fight against oppression lies elsewhere. But it is through its subtlety that appearance control serves its more broadly repressive purposes. Think about what we can do in the sphere of economics without the appropriate presentation of self, especially if we are not white and male.