Kate Merlock
Ms. Lemos
ENGL 104 - 514
7 November 2014
The Effect of Media on Women’s Body Image: An Annotated Bibliography
Hawkins, Nicole, P. Scott Richards, H. Mac Granley, and David M. Stein. "The Impact of Exposure to the Thin-Ideal Media Image on Women." Eating Disorders12.1 (2004): 35-50. Web.
In this article it is examined how the media exposure of a thin body image can affect how women see themselves. It can affect women’s body satisfaction, self esteem, and cause eating disorder symptoms. The “thin-idea” of women are usually unrealistic for most women to achieve. This makes women think they don’t have the right body for the society norm. So because of this, the article examined college women in a study who were exposed to either
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In this study half of the participants viewed fashion magazines while the other half viewed news magazines. They found in the results that majority of the girls who read the fashion magazines were less satisfied with their body weight and desired to be thinner, compared to the others who read the news magazines they were more afraid of getting fat.
Serdar, Kasey L. "Female Body Image and the Mass Media: Perspectives on How Women Internalize the Ideal Beauty Standard." The Myriad: Westminster's Undergraduate Academic Journal. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Nov. 2014.
In this article it is examined how popular media sets the standard for women’s body image and how they are usually unattainable for most women and well below the healthy body weight. Which then sends this message that in order for woman to be pretty she must be unhealthy. It is also discussed in this article that for most girls weight appearance issues start at an early age and will continue throughout their life. Thus, if girls are unsatisfied with their bodies they will tend to start to have bad eating habits and eventually lead up to an eating
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As a result most women put themselves through diets and self-loathing thoughts because they can’t achieve the “perfect” body. In the article a YouTube video show that Photoshop can do so much for a person that might be considered unattractive to become attractive. Yet girls still hold to unrealistic standards even though they know these photos are Photoshopped. This brings back that because of popular media such as popular covers of magazines set unattainable standards for women’s body image and yet women try to achieve it. Thus making them unhealthy and unhappy with who they