Female Body Picture

Florence griffin Joyner: The picture conveys strength because of her muscular frame and athletic pose. This is important and captivating because strength in our culture is predominately a male characteristic and is expected of them while women are suppose to be weak and fragile.

 This woman has achieved the fastest woman in the world title and her victorious and ecstatic emotions are clearly portrayed through her stance (both arms up, fingers pointing to the sky) and her facial expression (big smile and closed eyes).

There is another cultural issue that arises with this photograph which is that women in the view of some men are traditionally supposed to play or take part in girly activities like yoga, ballet, tennis, etc. but in this photo she is coming in first in a sport that is played by both men and women.