2-23-2012 Identity and the Body

Some signs of my identity could be my group of friends or my family. The books that have changed my life or the gifts Ive recieved from the people im close could be other examples. Something that comes to mind for me are the cards my family and freinds gave to me for birthdays, holidays and special occasions. The love and admiration I have for those things could represent something about me and how much friends and family are important to me.

Some metaphors that I could symbolize my identity with could be a paint brush because Ive love to paint since I was little. Another could be and Inhalor because Ive had asthma all my life or maybe my tennis shoes becaue ive had a wonderful experience with learning to live a more healthy lifestyle than I used to.

The book stated that your surroundings and your enviorment shape who you are as an individual so your community would play an important role to your identity. It is hard for me to say what community I would identify myself with because I feel like there is more to a person than what enviorment they grew up in. I feel like it is WHO ive grown up with that shapes who I am. I guess to most people the community I identify myself with would be a young women who is just starting out in life and has a good opertunity to have a good career. Otherwise my personal veiwpoint is an average caucasion girl who is an average college student trying to figure out what to do in my own life.

When Barbra Kruger said that "Your body is a battleground" she was making a reference to the pro-choice movment and the struggle for reproductive rights for women. I think that she meant that the body is a precious object that one should not abuse.