Summary
Contents
Subject index
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.
Print: Selling Sex and Slenderness
Print: Selling Sex and Slenderness
At the close of the twentieth century a new ‘moral panic’ seemed to be emerging in the news media which broadly claimed there was a crisis in femininity and blamed the fashion industry. In the United States the New York Times (22 May 1997) published President Clinton's rebuke of fashion designers and fashion magazines for depicting models in photo-shoots ‘glamourizing the strung-out look’ associated with heroin use. ‘Heroin-chic’ imagery featured emaciated, sunken-eyed, young models in extraordinarily expensive clothes and marked the end of the fit/muscled/though lean/healthy body fetishism that had characterized much of the 1980s; a look that was perhaps a response to panic about AIDS. Instead, during the 1990s, the
façade of healthy strength [was] replaced ...
- Loading...