The Media and Body Image draws together literature from sociology, gender studies, and psychology; brings together new empirical work on both media representations and audience responses; and offers a broad discussion of this topic in the context of socio-cultural change, gender politics, and self-identity.
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"Wykes and Gunter take a novel approach to familiar subjects - body image, eating disorders, Western ideals of beauty, media representations of femininity - by offering historical contextualization of the discourses surrounding each issue and articulating how these discourses relate. The upshot is a useful discussion that interrogates, rather than presumes, the effects of mass media on audiences and consumers. . . . Highly recommended." (P.A. Fulfs CHOICE )
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Overview of body image messages in the media, predominantly in the UK,
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This book is an overview of the various (generally negative) body image messages in the media. It's mostly about messages to women for women, but also touches in several chapters on male body images messages and their effects on boys and men. It focuses almost entirely on UK media, such as the Daily Mail and Sugar magazine. It's very heavy on eating disorders. It's thorough and has many, many citations for further reference. I bought it to aid in a thesis I have to write for a super-lame college course. It's not exactly what I needed (I hadn't realized that it was so focused on eating disorders and that there was little mention of American media sources) but it will work. If you have an interest in the connection between the media and eating disorders in women, you will likely find this book helpful.
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Despite normal hunger, slender shape and a successful social life, many young women deprive themselves of nutrition to the extent that they risk serious illness and even death. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Daily Mail, Victoria Beckham, Jennifer Aniston, World Wide Web, Kate Moss, Kate Winslet, British Medical Association, New York, African American, Miss America, Calista Flockhart, Frankfurt School, Julie Burchill, Lena Zavarone, Anna Kournikova, Downing Street, Geri Halliwell, Susie Orbach, American Psychiatric Association, Coronation Street, Daily Express, David Beckham, Kylie Minogue, Liz Jones New!
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Despite normal hunger, slender shape and a successful social life, many young women deprive themselves of nutrition to the extent that they risk serious illness and even death. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Daily Mail, Victoria Beckham, Jennifer Aniston, World Wide Web, Kate Moss, Kate Winslet, British Medical Association, New York, African American, Miss America, Calista Flockhart, Frankfurt School, Julie Burchill, Lena Zavarone, Anna Kournikova, Downing Street, Geri Halliwell, Susie Orbach, American Psychiatric Association, Coronation Street, Daily Express, David Beckham, Kylie Minogue, Liz Jones New!
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- Eating Disorders Pb (Therapy in Practice) by Simon Thompson on 8 pages
- News, Gender and Power by Stuart Allan on 5 pages
- Social Psychology by Elliot Aronson on 4 pages
- Identity and Difference (Culture, Media and Identities series) by Kathryn Woodward in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Manufacture of News: Deviance, Social Problems and the Mass Media (Communication and Society) by Stanley Cohen on page 44, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Women and Media: A Critical Introduction by Carolyn M. Byerly in Back Matter
- Women and Media: A Critical Introduction by Carolyn M. Byerly in Back Matter
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