The Media and Body Image: If Looks Could KillThe 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. |
Contents
Media Representations | 13 |
transcending the body | 14 |
Hysterical women | 16 |
Anorexia nervosa | 19 |
modern psychomedical approaches | 21 |
Thin is a feminist issue | 27 |
Diet and discourse | 30 |
Summary | 34 |
Theories of media influence | 139 |
Perceptions of media representations and attributions of influence | 150 |
Summary | 153 |
Media Exposure and Body Image Ideals | 154 |
Prevalence of concerns about body image | 156 |
Reported media exposure body selfimage and disordered eating | 158 |
Cultural and ethnicity factors | 168 |
Confidence in the survey evidence | 170 |
Body Matters | 36 |
Ways of seeing women | 38 |
the making of the modern Ms | 47 |
Mediated meaning and method | 53 |
Summary | 61 |
Print Selling Sex and Slenderness | 65 |
Skinny models send unhealthy message | 68 |
women in the newspapers | 74 |
You can get rid of cellulite and make any man better in bed | 82 |
What boys love about you sexy hair and beauty tips bag a boy by the weekend | 89 |
Lose 41b in 48 hours | 94 |
Starring Roles Screening Images | 100 |
The eggtimer dieters or how long it took these celebrity women to lose their unwanted pounds | 103 |
Serial women | 108 |
food on television | 118 |
Infothin technology | 121 |
Media mothers and me | 130 |
From Media Representation to Audience Impact | 135 |
From Representation to Effects | 138 |
Summary | 172 |
Media Causation and Body Image Perceptions | 174 |
Television effects | 181 |
Confidence in the experimental research evidence | 187 |
Summary | 190 |
The Media and Clinical Problems with Body Image | 192 |
Stereotypes associated with body size | 193 |
Anorexia nervosa | 194 |
Bulimia | 198 |
The Role of the Media | 200 |
Summary | 202 |
Conclusion Body Messages and Body Meanings | 204 |
Mediated bodies | 207 |
Audience interpretation and attitude | 216 |
concluding comments | 219 |
References | 222 |
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