categories of behaviour which are relevant to ways in which I have developed the category of lost little girl. I refer to Goffman then, in order to argue that the characteristic behaviours for lost little girl fall under the female stereotype of being seen as helpless and in need of orientation from a stronger more ‘knowing’ person. These are characteristics that form part of category: The Ritualization of Goffman’s Subordination (1976, p.41), which as the title indicates examines ways in which women are presented in advertising as subordinate. The principal feature in category is the display of physically subordinate behaviours by women, Goffman’s such as being lower in space in relation to another person (p.40) with beds and floors as key location for subordination (p.46). Other characteristic behaviours include: being acceptance of a subordinate position; ingratiating “un-oriented” (p.57); behaviour (p.46), and grown women being portrayed as childlike (viii). Goffman describes key gestural traits which he sees as indicating as; “bashful knee-bending”, foregoing full effort, and which indicate acceptance of a “canting postures”, subordinate position (p.46). Self touching, for example finger to finger, is a gesture he aligns with an anxiety sustained in a in “dissociated unthinking fashion” (p.60), other words a kind of distancing oneself mentally as though displaying an incapacity to deal with a particular situation. He makes particular note of this gestic pattern which is often seen with a body cant and a knee bend (p.62). This gesture of knee bending, canting (the head often tilted to one side) and self touching appears frequently in Dear Body as I come to discuss. Although I had arrived at my Protein’s own criteria for this category before reading Goffman, through examining the works cited here, his analysis further supports and helps clearly articulate the criteria and discussion for the category of lost little girl. Criteria for lost little girl
categories of behaviour which are relevant to ways in which I have developed the category of lost little girl. I refer to Goffman then, in order to argue that the characteristic behaviours for lost little girl fall under the female stereotype of being seen as helpless and in need of orientation from a stronger more ‘knowing’ person. These are characteristics that form part of Goffman’s category: The Ritualization of Subordination (1976, p.41), which as the title indicates examines ways in which women are presented in advertising as subordinate. The principal feature in Goffman’s category is the display of physically subordinate behaviours by women, such as being lower in space in relation to another person (p.40) with beds and floors as key location for subordination (p.46). Other characteristic behaviours include: being “un-oriented” (p.57); acceptance of a subordinate position; ingratiating behaviour (p.46), and grown women being portrayed as childlike (viii). Goffman describes key gestural traits as; “bashful knee-bending”, which he sees as indicating foregoing full effort, and “canting postures”, which indicate acceptance of a subordinate position (p.46). Self touching, for example finger to finger, is a gesture he aligns with an anxiety sustained in a “dissociated unthinking fashion” (p.60), in other words a kind of distancing oneself mentally as though displaying an incapacity to deal with a particular situation. He makes particular note of this gestic pattern which is often seen with a body cant and a knee bend (p.62). This gesture of knee bending, canting (the head often tilted to one side) and self touching appears frequently in Protein’s Dear Body as I come to discuss. Although I had arrived at my own criteria for this category before reading Goffman, through examining the works cited here, his analysis further supports and helps clearly articulate the criteria and discussion for the category of lost little girl. Criteria for lost little girl