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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.
The Media and Clinical Problems with Body Image
The Media and Clinical Problems with Body Image
Many studies have indicated that young women today see models, actors and centrefolds who are thinner and far less curvaceous than those seen by their mothers and grandmothers. This trend has been illustrated by research showing that the body measurements of models and even beauty contest finalists, for the past several decades, have gradually become less hour-glass like, more boyish or more androgynous (Garner et al., 1980; Levine et al., 1994; Silverstein et al., 1986).
Women's beauty and fashion magazines may be among the most influential media formats in perpetuating and reinforcing the socio-cultural preference for thinness and in creating a sense of dissatisfaction with one's body (Harrison and Cantor, 1997). ...
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