The media and body image : if looks could kill

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Title:

Author:

Wykes, Maggie, 1951-

ISBN:

9780761942481

9780761942474

Personal Author:

Wykes, Maggie, 1951-

Publication Information:

London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2005.

Physical Description:

iv, 252 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Contents:

Could looks kill? -- pt. 1. Media representations -- Dying to be thin -- Body matters -- Print : selling sex and slenderness -- Starring roles : screening images -- pt. 2. From media representations to audience impact -- From representation to effects -- Media exposure and body image ideals -- Media causation and body image perceptions -- The media and clinical problems with body image -- Conclusion : Body messages and body meanings.

Abstract:

Drawing together literature from sociology, gender studies and psychology, this text offers a broad discussion on body image in the context of socio-cultural change, gender politics and self-identity.

Subject Term:

Mass media and culture.

Body image.

Mass media -- Psychological aspects.

Mass media -- Influence.

Image du corps.

Médias -- Aspect psychologique.

Médias et culture.

Added Author:

Gunter, Barrie.

Electronic Access:

Table of contents http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy053/2005295979.html
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Summary

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.