The minute you go out with a man, the minute you go to a bar and have a drink, there is a risk. What is involved in the pleasures of make-up. It was the issue of beauty, which launched the women's liberation movement in the late 1960s. Today, over two decades later, beauty is still an issue of intense feminist concern, as feminist scholars continue to call attention to the ways in which constructions of beauty and femininity restrict women's lives. Most people describe feminists as being hairy, unattractive, obese, short hair, overalls and boots, but most self-identified feminists don't fit this image.
Most cultures generally recognize only two types of bodies - female and male bodies.
Of course, human bodies are also physically or visibly differentiated according to many other characteristics such as hair colour, eye colour, skin colour, height, bone size and body weight. But the characteristic of sex is of primary significance in all cultures, providing the basis for elaborate systems of social meaning and organization. In most cultures, female and male bodies perform different functions, occupy different social statuses, possess different types of social power and command different degrees of respect and attention. In modern Western culture there are many social codes and practices which serve to demarcate boundaries between the sexes. From the moment of birth, this fact carries very profound implications for the life of that child.