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The Media and Body Image : If Looks Could Kill

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Format Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10 0761942483
ISBN-13 9780761942481
Publisher SAGE Publications Inc
Imprint SAGE Publications Inc
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Dec 18th, 2004
Print length 256 Pages
Weight 406 grams
Dimensions 23.40 x 15.50 x 1.50 cms
Product Classification: Media studies
Ksh 9,350.00
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Although it has become popular to blame the media for extolling unrealistic female body images, little academic work has addressed the issue. This book, drawing together literature from sociology, gender studies and psychology, offers a broad discussion of the topic in the context of socio-cultural change, gender politics, and self-identity.
Blaming the media for reproducing and extolling unrealistic female bodies has almost become a popular truism. Even medical opinion notes that the media can influence young women to starve themselves and therefore act as a possible causal factor of disordered eating.

Yet surprisingly, little work has addressed either the nature of media representations of the body, or the ways in which audiences interpret and use such images in our contemporary cultural context.

The Media and Body Image addresses this lack and:

-Draws together literature from sociology, gender studies and psychology

-Brings together new empirical work on both media representations and audience responses

-Offers a broad discussion of this topic in the context of socio-cultural change, gender politics, and self-identity.


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