Maria Dolores Gil: "Freeing ourselves of an excessive pressure on our personal image would contribute to a true women’s liberation"



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## Maria Dolores Gil: "Freeing ourselves of an excessive pressure on our personal image would contribute to a true women’s liberation" The psychologist warns on the pressure exerted on women to achieve an ideal that goes against their physiology in a summer course at the Universitat Jaume I

05/08/2016 |
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While feminism has been and is a necessary revolution, for the psychologist Maria Dolores Gil the true revolution of women also passes through "freeing ourselves of an excessive pressure on our personal image”. The lecturer from the Department of Psychology and Education at the University of Valencia has warned in the summer course "Humanization in the assistance of women and early childhood" from the Universitat Jaume I of the importance of the problem of pressure about body image, especially in women.

"We have no perception of the seriousness of the issue," she has assured, noting that often "it is not considered a problem: it is *normal* for a 9-year-old girl to be worried about her image when she actually has healthy body mass index and she is still growing. "The ideal of beauty, the personal context and socialization agents are the three aspects that influence the perception that each person has of his or her body, explained Gil, noting that the ideal of Western beauty currently imposed by society to women, based on a thin and fragile image, implies "a normative discontent of women as it imposes a cultural pattern that goes against their physiology", she lamented. In the case of men, the pattern of strong and muscular body can be more in tune with their physiology, but it also creates significant problems. In this regard, she has noted that -at present- the incidence of problems stemming from a negative body image is much lower among men than among women.

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