...women's bodies are "inferiorised, stigmatized . . . within an overarching patriarchal ideology.For example, biologically and physiologically, women's bodies are seen as both disgusting in their natural state and inferior to men's'' (2001, p. 141).
Sheila Jeffreys, Beauty and Misogyny: Harmful Cultural Practices in the West
beauty, body, disgust, disgusting, stigma