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The Media and Body Image: If Looks Could Kill

The Media and Body Image: If Looks Could Kill

Wykes, Maggie
Gunter, Barrie

Hardcover

General ReferenceGeneral Gender StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0761942475
ISBN13: 9780761942474
Publisher: Sage Publications UK
Published: Jan 13 2005
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.19
Height: 0.82 Width: 6.24 Depth: 9.48
Language: English
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.

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