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Nordström, Jenny. "HOW OLDER WOMEN ARE AFFECTED OF SOCIETY IDEAL BEAUTY?" Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för hälsa och samhälle (HS), 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-24630.
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Nordström är J, Waldesten, S. En studie om äldre kvinnor och hur de påverkas av samhällets ideal skönhet. Examensarbete i socialt arbete 15 poäng. Malmö högskola. Hälsa och samhälle 2011. ABSTRAKT Syftet med denna uppsats är att utforska och fördjupa förståelsen av äldre kvinnors relationer till kroppsliga utseende. Problem: En förutfattad mening som vi båda kände att vi stötte på var att de gamla inte bryr sig om hur de ser ut. Varför skulle du sluta bry sig om sin kropp bara för att du blir gammal? Media visar ofta en bild av äldre som svaga och utsatta grupp. På nyheterna är det ofta äldre människor som har exponerats för något. Vi är intresserade av hur äldre kvinnor drabbas av samhällets skönhetsideal. Det är ett aktuellt ämne publicerar media ständigt artiklar och annonser om hur man kan uppnå sina kroppsuppfattning genom olika metoder. Rubriker kan ses i tidningarna är "ät dig smal", "hålla sig ung längre" och "träna dig till den perfekta kroppen". Metod: Kvaliativ, semi-strukturerade intervjuer med sju kvinnor har genomförts. De är 65-91 år gamla. Resultat: Resultatet av denna studie visar att äldre kvinnor känner kroppen ideal. de är mycket medvetna om hur de ska klä sig för att inte bryta mot några normer. de tar hand om sin kropp och är aktiva med sitt utseende.Nordström, J, Waldesten, S. Youthful norms of beauty is prevailing in the society. A study about older women and how they affected of society ideal beauty. Degree project in social work 15 poäng. Malmö University. Health and Society 2011. ABSTRACTPurpose in this paper is to explore and deepen the understanding of older womens relations to bodily appearance. Problem: A bias that we both felt that we encountered was that of old do not care how they look. Why would you stop caring about their body just because you grow old? Media often show an image of the elderly as weak and vulnerable group. On the news, it is often older people who have been exposed to something. We are interested in how older women are affected by society's beauty ideals. It is a topical subject, the media constantly publishes articles and ads about how to achieve their body image through various methods. Headlines can be seen in the newspapers is "eat yourself thin", "stay young longer" and "train yourself to the perfect body". Method: Qualitive, semi-structured interviews with seven womens were conducted. They are 65-91 years old. Result: The result of this study shows that older women know the body ideals. they are very aware of how they should dress so as not to violate any standards. they care for their body and are active with their appearance.
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Hejtmánek, David. "Marketingový význam body image." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-197826.
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Body image is undoubtedly important in everyone's life. The main objective of this thesis is to find its importance for marketing. To achieve this goal, it was necessary to find out the society's opinions on the issue of beauty and body image, how do media picture human body and if there exists a difference between these two things. The first part of this theses consists of the historical development of the beauty ideal. It is followed by segmentation of Czech population, based on the data from the project MML-TGI, survey focused on beauty preferences and content analysis of lifestyle magazines. The findings support among other things the importance of beauty to most people, media's focus on extreme thinness for females and disparity between the presented ideal and people's preferences. The results lead to one conclusion: the importance of body image for marketing exists and is significant.
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Alqutub, Khulod Ragheb A. "Ashamed bodies : the struggle into changing body ideals." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/42626.
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Women’s body shape and weight is a topic of everyday conversation in Saudi Arabia. A generation ago it was not. Daily newspaper cartoons satirise women’s battle with weight and show a rapid and significant shift of how a woman’s body in the Saudi society should be now: a thin and fit body. In the past, larger, usually married women were a common sight receiving little commentary from popular culture and from people’s everyday conventions. Gym work and exercise were seen as inappropriate for women, and there were no diet foods or clinics. There has been a substantial change and increase with women-only gyms and special diet clinics, diet foods and a change to view the thin and fit body as the contemporary ideal. Using a conceptual combination of work by Michel Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu, this thesis explores the socio-cultural factors influencing women’s application of weight management practices in Saudi Arabian context. The thesis examines this change from 6 mother-daughter cases, describing the socio-cultural factors that influence women’s use of different disciplining-body-technologies and documenting the experiences and changing subjectivities of Saudi women. One-to-one interviews, participant-diaries, and researcher-observation at women-only-family gatherings, form this mixed-qualitative approach. Ideas and ideals, norms and stigma about body size and shape across generations and within families are reported. I bring empirical focus to the interconnections between the social and individual body, how body work is both inherited within families and shaped by the forms of symbolic power valued at different times, body docility as obedient and productive, and family-body habitus as it relates to body-disciplinary-technology practices. I signal the everyday experiences/expressions of a contemporary social life expressed by participants and which also makes visible those influences that structure individual experience but which individuals might be little aware of – yet can be evidenced in their narratives. This thesis contributes to the establishment of an understanding towards the complex dynamics of social and cultural factors in forming and reforming women’s feminine subjectivities; and the way they participate in weight management practices in the Saudi Arabian context.
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Savell, Kristin. "Ideal motherideal body." Thesis, McGill University, 1997. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=20545.
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This thesis argues that women's bodies are constituted by discourses about them. It explores the operations of power over women's bodies by analyzing the way in which the maternal body is constructed in the discourses of law, medicine and culture. Chapter One provides a theoretical context for this thesis. It examines the organization of knowledge and its relationship to power within the Western liberal tradition. Power is implicated in the production and dissemination of knowledge about the maternal body in two ways. First, scientific knowledge is privileged in legal and cultural discourses with the effect that knowledge claims based on experience are discredited. Second, scientific knowledge about the fetus, divined through the routine application of diagnostic technologies, has generated new opportunities for scrutinizing the maternal body. This information has been used to create expectations about which bodies are appropriate for reproductive purposes. These points are explored in Chapters Two and Three. Chapter Two is a study of cultural discourses about two women whose pregnancies were condemned on the basis that their bodies deviated from the ideal maternal body. In these stories, each woman was represented as a bad mother for pursuing her pregnancy against medical advice. Chapter Three is a study of the law's response to women who have failed to comply with medical advice deemed necessary for fetal well-being. It analyzes the strategies and implications of legally regulating pregnant women. Overall, this thesis poses a challenge to the way that the maternal body is represented by excavating the partial nature of the claims upon which these representations are based. Further, it argues for a re-conceptualization of the maternal body.
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Balatková, Táňa. "Obsahová analýza prvků body image v mezinárodním srovnání." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-124903.
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The content of the Diploma is the introduction and analysis of body image including historical development, cultural and social impacts and the differences of men's and women's images. The marketing view of this problems and the introduction of interesting campaigns in the body image is important as well. In the next part of Diploma I compare two lifestyle magazines from two different countries -- the Czech Republic and Sweden -- with the help of comparative analysis. The aim of the analysis is to compare the meaningful differences between the body images in both countries, which will appear during the research of the magazines. Thanks to evaluation of a lot of categories the very interesting results developed. The most important of them is the fact that a wide range of multinational advertisements appeared in both magazines. In spite of it some cultural and anthropological differences were discovered.
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Eisenmann, Jan. "Etické problémy vlivu komunikace v souvislosti body image." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-85322.
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The thesis is focused on an issue of attainable beauty ideal and its possible negative consequences mainly on adolescent audience. It also deals with the possible ethical questions that are related to the beauty ideal with the young audience. This narrow part of the poulation was selected because of the the fact, that they are the at the biggest risk. The theoretical part describes the related experiments and also shows some examples of different approach to beauty in marketing communication. The practical part of the theses consists of two parts, questionnaire survey and an in-depth interview with the specialists in the psychology and marketing. The conclusion of the work indicates, that young people are aware of the relationship between the beauty ideal and the negative consequences, but, as the rest of the population, do not perceive this phenomenon as an ethical issue.
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Kim, Sung Gyu. "The origin of Paul's bodily resurrection idea." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.
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Wojno, Julianne C. "Taking the Ideal out of the Thin Ideal." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1429695090.
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Bengs, Carita. "Looking good : a study of gendered body ideals among young people." Doctoral thesis, Online version, 2000. http://bibpurl.oclc.org/web/24363.
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Savell, Kristin. "Ideal mother/ideal body, constructions of the maternal body in legal, medical and cultural discourses." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0006/MQ44074.pdf.
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Bicheler, Carly S. "Self-Determined Non-Conformity, Feminine Gender Roles, and Feminist Ideals as Resistance Factors Against Internalization of the Thin Ideal Body and Body Dissatisfaction." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1226499111.
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Böhlke, Rossana de Felippe. "Constructing ideal body appearance for women." Florianópolis, SC, 2008. http://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/90962.
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The multi-semiotic representations enacted by advertising disclose the world views in and through which it is created and consumed. Messages of gender promoting female body insecurity are strategically explored in advertisements to support diverse branches of body alteration industry including pharmaceutics. Thus, a discursive-semiotic content analysis of the national version of a 30-second television advertisement for Xenical, a prescription weight-management drug, is developed with a focus on the multimodal aspects of the dynamic displays of meaning-making resources. The key objective of this study is to carry out a critical examination of discursive-semiotic construction of gender identities, social relations and representations on the basis of the contextual and textual features of the film text. The dynamic unfolding of the images constituting the TV advertisement is based on a model of multimodal transcription of film genre proposed by Baldry & Thibault (2006) in which the visual configuration is divided into phases and organized according to the chronological sequence of the film and then aligned with its verbal information. At the micro level of visual analysis, the representational, interactional and compositional meanings of each shot are taken into account in line with the multimodal semiotic approach proposed by Kress and van Leeuven (1996; 2006). Similarly, the lexicogrammatical analysis of the verbal information/ utterances in the film is carried out in line with the tri-functional conceptualization of meaning proposed by Halliday (1994) and Halliday & Mathiessen, (2004). At the macro level, the contextual features are analyzed drawing upon principles of critical discourse analysis (Fairclough, 2003). The complex metafunctional interpretation of the structures of meaning indicates how visual and verbal meaning-making resources are expertly combined in order to produce, maintain and sustain ideological gender messages reinforcing social inequalities. As representações multi-semióticas oriundas da propaganda revelam as visões do mundo nas quais e através das quais a mesma é criada e consumida. Menssagens relacionadas ao gênero social que produzem inseguranças no corpo feminino são estrategicamente exploradas por comerciais com o objetivo de sustentarem diversos ramos da indústria de modificação do corpo incluindo o setor farmacêutico. Assim sendo, nesta tese desenvolve-se uma análise semiótica-discursiva do conteúdo de uma versão nacional de 30 segundos de uma propaganda de TV promovendo o medicamento Xenical, utilizado para o controle de peso, tendo em vista os aspectos multimodais da representação dinâmica dos recursos que compõem o significado do texto como um todo. O objetivo deste estudo consiste em promover uma investigação crítica envolvendo a construção semiótica-discursiva das identidades de gênero, suas relações e representações baseada em fatores textuais e contextuais de um texto sob o formato de filme. A investigação da dinâmica por das imagens de tal propaganda foi baseada em um modelo multimodal de transcrição de filme proposto por Baldry & Thibault (2006) no qual a formatação textual foi dividida em fases organizadas de acordo com a seqüência cronológica para a seguir serem alinhadas com as respectivas informações verbais. No que concerne a análise visual das fases, foi considerado o método semiótico multimodal proposto por by Kress e van Leeuven (1996; 2006). A análise lexicogramatical das informações verbais e das falas contidas no filme foi igualmente desenvolvida de acordo com o conceito tri-funcional de significado proposto por Halliday (1994) e Halliday & Mathiessen, (2004). Por sua vez, os aspectos contextuais são também examinados conforme os princípios de análise crítica do discurso (Fairclough, 2003). A complexa interpretação metafuncional deste tipo de texto indica como os recursos visuais e verbais são astutamente combinados para continuarem produzindo, mantendo e sustentando mensagens ideológicas em relação a gênero social as quais reforçam as desigualdades sociais.
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Moyers, Sheena. "Actual and Ideal Self Discrepancy and Body Satisfaction." TopSCHOLAR®, 2005. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/465.
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Over the past decade, there has been an increase in research and concern over body image and body attitudes in both clinical and community settings (Sondhaus, Kurtz, & Strube, 2001). Historically, body image has been thought to be more important to women than to men. However, recently male body image has begun to increase in importance. Over the past few decades, men have been facing increased societal pressure, concerning the type of body that they should have. One such way that pressure is manifested is through muscle dysmorphia, and a potential influence on muscle dysmorphia is self-concept. Self-concept may interact with muscle dysmorphia through the changes that people want to make about themselves. Within self-concept people may want to change a great deal about themselves and the way that they are currently (actual self) in order to achieve what they see as a better (ideal) self. The goal of the present study was to examine how men's self concept relates to body satisfaction and symptoms of body dysmorphia. The current study hypothesized that those individuals with a greater discrepancy between their actual and ideal selves will also have lower body satisfaction. The study also hypothesized that as the discrepancy between actual and ideal selves increases, men will report higher symptoms of body dysmorphia. Participants were 124 men all over the age of 18. The mean age of participants was 20.15. The participants completed a Demographics Questionnaire, the Dysmorphia Inventory (DI), the Body Assessment (BA), and the Self-Concept Questionnaire (SCQ). Linear regressions were performed to examine the relationship between body satisfaction and self-concept. A second set of linear regressions was also performed that focused on specific items that were selected from the SCQ. Results supported the first hypothesis; men's body satisfaction decreased as the discrepancy between their actual and ideal selves increased. This supported hypothesis supports research suggesting that the way people perceive their bodies and their level of satisfaction with their bodies is related to their self-concept and how they see themselves as an entire being. The second hypothesis predicted that as the discrepancy between actual and ideal selves increased, men would report higher symptoms of body dysmorphia and lower levels of body satisfaction. This hypothesis was also supported, with men reporting higher symptoms of body dysmorphia and lower levels of body satisfaction as the discrepancy between actual and ideal selves increased. The suggestion is that men who have more symptoms of body dysmorphia want to change more about themselves in general and want to strive to achieve their ideal self. The present study is important because a greater understanding of the relationship between body attitude/satisfaction and self-concept could help in designing effective interventions for such clinical problems as eating disorders and poor body attitude (Sondhaus, Kurtz, & Strube, 2001). This study may help initiate treatment for individuals who have body image problems or disorders, which focuses on the entire individual and self-concept and not simply on the body image problems and symptoms.
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Thompson, Joanne. "Social constructions of childbirth : 'real' women, 'ideal' mothers, minds, bodies and mastery /." Adelaide, 1997. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARPS/09arpst4732.pdf.
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Hawkins, Nicole. "The Impact of the Ideal Thin Body Image on Women." DigitalCommons@USU, 1999. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/6121.
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Researchers and clinicians have postulated that the thin-ideal image portrayed in the media leads to body dissatisfaction and negative self-appraisals among women; however, there is little research that has directly examined the effects of these images on women. The purpose of this research investigation was to experimentally examine the effects of exposure to the thin-ideal on women's affect, self-esteem, body satisfaction, and level of internalization of the thin body image. This study also assessed how the thin-ideal image differentially impacted women with a diagnosed eating disorder. College women (N = 145) were randomly exposed to photographs from popular magazines containing either thin-ideal images or neutral images (nonmodels).
The results indicated that exposure to the thin-ideal images produced body dissatisfaction, negative mood states, and lowered self-esteems. It was also expected that exposure to the thin body image would result in higher levels of internalization of the thin-ideal; however, the results indicated that women exposed to these images had significantly lower levels of internalization compared to women in the neutral condition. The results also suggest that women with eating disorders exhibited significantly more body dissatisfaction and depression after exposure to the thin-ideal relative to all other subgroups of women. Implications for prevention of eating disorders and areas of future research are discussed.
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Reznek, Jennie. "Moving ideas about moving bodies : teaching physical theatre as a response to violence and the violated body." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11377.
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In this thesis I explore my obsession with teaching the physical theatre body over the past twenty-five years.Two sets of questions are proposed: How does the teaching of physical theatre respond to violence and the violated body; and how does pedagogy change when it moves from one context to another? Firstly, I argue that the pedagogy developed by Jacques Lecoq in Paris responded like a pendulum to the extreme violence perpetrated on bodies during the Second World War. I argue that my own practice, influenced by my two years of study at École Jacques Lecoq (1984-1986), continued this tradition by responding to what, I propose, existed as a ‘culture of violence’ in South Africa from the period of colonialism through the apartheid era and into the present. I analyse the impact of violence on the body by focusing on three consequences - stillness, erasure and rupture - and come to an understanding of how the teaching of physical theatre, as per Lecoq and myself, counters all three with a focus on the moving, articulate, individuated body capable of transformation. Secondly, I propose that pedagogy responds to geographic, philosophical and historical contexts and is subject to modification when context changes. The methodology has included conventional research, a comparative analysis of the two contexts, and an analysis of my own experiences - from notebooks that I have kept - as a student and teacher.
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Esser, Frederick. "John Locke's investigation into our knowledge of bodies." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät I, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/14751.
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Da John Locke wiederholt betont, dass seine Theorie von materiellen Körpern, vorgebracht im Essay concerning Human Understanding (1690), eine genuin philosophische Darstellung von Körpern sei, summiert sich das Thema seiner Ausführungen zu einer philosophischen Reflektion der sogenannten wissenschaftlichen Revolution im siebzehnten Jahrhundert auf. In dieser Arbeit werde ich eine Interpretationslinie entwickeln, welche zu bestimmen versucht, worin das genuin philosophische Anliegen von Lockes Analyse von Körpern besteht. Sie führt zu einer umfassenden Neubetrachtung von Lockes Ausführungen, da Unterschiede zu anderen Interpretationen gerade bei den zentralen Fragestellungen und der ihnen entsprechenden Begriffen bestehen, namentlich von: dem Substratum von Körpern, primären und sekundären Qualitäten, Ähnlichkeit, der Rolle der Korpuskulartheorie, Archetypen, realen und nominalen Essenzen, dem Argument zu Spezien und Klassifikation, die Bedeutung von Lockes Sprachanalyse, dem Wissensbegriff, dem Ideal wissenschaftlichem Verstehens und der Bestimmung der Reichweite zeitgenössischen Wissens. Es wird argumentiert, dass er bewusst zeitgenössisches Wissen von Körpern in der Perspektive eines idealen, wissenschaftlichen Verstehens von ihnen bestimmt und dass er so einen philosophischen Rahmen für die Naturwissenschaften entwirft, der: (1) spezifiziert, worin eine Wissenschaft von Körpern idealerweise besteht, (2) zeitgenössisches Wissen in dieser Perspektive bestimmt, (3) eine eigene Konzeption für eine zeitgenössische Wissenschaft beinhaltet, welche Mittel zur Verfügung stellt, dieses Wissen zu erweitern und (4) alternative Ideen von einer Wissenschaft von Körpern zurückweist.Since John Locke repeatedly insists that his theory of bodies, endorsed in the Essay concerning Human Understanding (1690), is a genuinely philosophical assessment of bodies, the topic of his account adds up to a philosophical reflection on the so-called scientific revolution in the seventeenth century. In this work, I will develop a line of interpretation that undertakes to settle the issue what the genuinely philosophical issue of Locke's analysis of bodies consists in. This leads to a thorough re-examination of Locke's account, since the differences to other interpretations concern most prominent issues on bodies and, correspondingly, many of their crucial concepts: the substratum of bodies, primary and secondary qualities, resemblance, the role of corpuscularian theory, archetypes, real and nominal essences, the argument on species and classification, the significance of the analysis of language, the concept of knowledge, the ideal of scientific understanding, and the account of the scope of contemporary knowledge. As will be argued, Locke consciously assesses contemporary knowledge in the perspective of an ideal scientific grasp of bodies and thus unfolds a philosophical framework for natural science which: (1) specifies what a science of bodies ideally consists in, (2) assesses contemporary knowledge in this perspective, (3) advances an own conception of a contemporary science of bodies that proposes means to enhance contemporary knowledge, and (4) refutes alternative ideas of a science of bodies.
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Romero, Joshua Paul. "The effects of priming body shape on men's selective exposure to magazine advertising featuring models with ideal and non-ideal body shapes A social comparison approach /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1211985495.
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Romero, Joshua Paul. "The effects of priming body shape on men’s selective exposure to magazine advertising featuring models with ideal and non-ideal body shapes: A social comparison approach." The Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1211985495.
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Christner, Rebecca. "The shape of things : magazine ads and the female body ideal." Thesis, Manhattan, Kan. : Kansas State University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/816.
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Bardick, Angela D., and University of Lethbridge Faculty of Education. "In pursuit of the ideal masculine body : a phenomenological-hermeneutic approach." Thesis, Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Education, 2003, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10133/200.
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A phenomenological-hermeneutic approach was used to research men's experience with attempting to achieve an 'ideal' masculine body. The current North American 'ideal' male body, media and cultural influences, a continuum of exercise and dieting behaviours, steriod use, addictions, eating disorders were presented as factors that may provide insight into this phenomenon. Eight male research participants were interviewed in regards to their experiences with attempting to achieve an 'ideal' masculine body. A dramaturgical life story approach to interviewing was ued. A follow-up interview was conducted to allow each research participant to comment on the emerging themes shared by the researcher. The nine themes that emerged from the participants' stories are: (1) I am not good enough, (2) judging genetics, (3) spiraling into obsession, (4) extreme commitment, (5)join the club, (6) no one understands me, (7)control, (8) it's all an optical illusion, and (9) overcoming the obsession. The results of this thesis combined with the literature suggest the following three conclusions. First, men who attempt to achieve an ideal masculine body may be vulnerable to external messages about their bodies. Second, pre-existing personality traits and/or mental health issues may contribute to this vulnerability. Third, some men may attempt to deal with complex mental health issues by taking their 'frustrations' and 'aggression' out in the gym, rather than by seeking counselling. The implications for helping professionals are discussed. The limitations of this approach are acknowledged and directions for future research are suggested.ix, 126 leaves ; 29 cm.
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Mansi, Yildirim Sarah. "The Ideal Female Body : A critical discourse analysis of shapewear advertising." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Malmö högskola, Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-37563.
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This paper aimed to investigate how women, through the advertisement of U.S. shapewear brands Shapermint and Honeylove, are exposed to the ideological idea of the female body. This study's method was a three-dimensional framework developed by Norman Fairclough, which revealed ideological hidden messages about the female body in shapewear advertisement. The study discussed how the companies participate in the social practice of perfecting the female body and normalize the patriarchal demands of women. In conclusion, the study showed how popular shapewear brands with the internet's power target women in their advertisements.
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Kučerová, Dana. "Marketingový význam body image." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2009. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-16626.
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Holloway, Hannah R. "The thin ideal : the role of positive and negative expectancies /." Read thesis online, 2009. http://library.uco.edu/UCOthesis/HollowayHR2009.pdf.
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Silva, Vanessa da. "Alfred Tennyson e o ideal orgânico de civilização." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2010. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/12649.
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Previous issue date: 2010-10-19The present research evidences how the poet Alfred Tennyson, developed the values of the courtesy, surrounded by a conservationist moral, in the constitution of the culture named national culture form the Victorian England. To achieve that, it became necessary for us to understand how Tennyson approached the social organic stage, opposite to the denominated Mechanical Age. The poet, who was laureate by the English royalty, is part of a movement, from England of the XIX century, which goes back to the Middle Ages to try to manipulate a national tradition. This movement, known as medieval revival, contributed to the values building, which resulted in the present society development. Added to this, Alfred Tennyson, was known as the voice of the Victorian England, who has really few historical studies of his poems, what makes him an author who still have a lot of things to be studied. In this essay, we have analyzed the poems The Coming of Arthur, Merlin and Vivien and Merlin and The Gleam, as the main historical documents. We have approached mainly the Merlin character. We have focused sometimes on the analyzing of the character body, and sometimes on the identification which the poet established with the wizard. Through Merlin´s positioning and voice , we have observed the organic society defended by the poet. This (organically) way of observing the society was related to the building of a national culture. This culture, according to Tennyson, should be built and consolidated by people education. The way of educating, to the author, happened through his poems, which carried morality and courtesy ideals
A presente pesquisa evidencia como o poeta Alfred Tennyson cultivou valores de civilidade, envoltos por uma moral conservadora, na formação da chamada cultura nacional da Inglaterra vitoriana. Para tanto, tornou-se necessário entendermos a maneira como Tennyson abordou a organicidade social, em oposição à denominada Era da mecanização . O poeta, que foi laureado pela realeza inglesa, é parte de um movimento, da Inglaterra do século XIX, que retoma a Idade Média para tentar forjar uma tradição nacional. Esse movimento, conhecido como renascimento medieval , contribuiu para a construção de valores, que resultaram na formação da sociedade atual. Somado a isso, Alfred Tennyson, que ficou conhecido como a voz da Inglaterra vitoriana, possui raríssimos estudos históricos sobre seus poemas, o que o torna um autor que ainda tem muito a ser estudado. Neste trabalho, analisamos os poemas The Coming of Arthur, Merlin and Vivien e Merlin and The Gleam, como principais documentos históricos. Abordamos principalmente o personagem Merlin. Algumas vezes focamos na análise do corpo do personagem, outras vezes na identificação que o poeta estabeleceu com o mago. Por meio dos posicionamentos e da voz de Merlin, observamos a sociedade orgânica defendida pelo poeta. Essa maneira (orgânica) de perceber a sociedade estava relacionada com a construção de uma cultura nacional. Cultura que, segundo Tennyson, deveria ser construída e consolidada por meio da educação da população. A maneira de educar, para o autor, dava-se por meio de seus poemas, que carregavam ideais de civilidade e moralidade
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Chan, Hoi-kei Gloria, and 陳凱琪. "Rejection concerns accentuate effects of thin-ideal images on women's body satisfaction." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2010. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B45986277.
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Mecca, Allison E. "The Effects of Pinterest Images and Thin Ideal Internalization on Body Dissatisfaction." Xavier University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=xavier1459963044.
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Barta, Jonna Lee. "Media Effects on the Body Shape Ideal and Bulimic Symptomatology in Males." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1999. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2261/.
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This study investigates the impact of sociocultural mediators in relation to eating disorders among male undergraduates. Literature on eating disorders has demonstrated that a thin body shape ideal depicted in the media directly contributes to eating pathology among females, but little research has investigated the direct effects of ideal body shape images among men. The focus of the present investigation was to assess the direct effects of exposure to the ideal male body shape on mens affect, self esteem, body satisfaction, and endorsement of U. S. societal ideals of attractiveness. In addition, the relation of these variables to bulimic symptomatology was examined. Modeling a study conducted on women (Stice & Shaw, 1994), male undergraduates between the ages of 18 to 25 participated in premeasure (N = 169) and post measure (N = 95) conditions. Participants in the post measure were randomly exposed to pictures from magazines containing either male models depicting the ideal body shape, an average body or pictures of clothing without models. Results from repeated mulitvariate analysis indicated that exposure to the ideal body shape condition did not demonstrate significant negative changes in mens affect, self esteem, body satisfaction or endorsement of U. S. societal ideals of attractiveness. Indirect support for the sociocultural theory of eating disorders was provided by multiple regression analyses which demonstrated that increased body mass, self esteem, stress and anxiety predicted bulimic symptomatology in men. Future research should direct itself toward investigating possible sociocultural influences of eating disorders on certain male subenvironments, such as athletes or homosexual males that place a greater emphasis on maintaining lower body mass and an ideal body shape.
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Conceição, Gisela de Assis. "Cultura corporal: pesquisa com adolescentes do Centro Cultural Cartola (CCC) Rio de Janeiro." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2011. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=4649.
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Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível SuperiorA definição mais plausível para esta pesquisa é aquela onde a adolescência se estabelece de acordo com a história de vida e o contexto sociocultural no qual o sujeito está inserido, que envolve, na transição para a fase adulta, transformações na mente, na personalidade, no comportamento e principalmente no corpo. O grupo das adolescentes pesquisadas encontra-se numa fase da vida de descobertas, mudanças (psicológicas identitárias e acima de tudo corporais) assim como todo e qualquer sujeito que encontra-se nessa fase da vida. Com a entrada na adolescência, ocorre a formação de grupos no qual as adolescentes vão se identificar. Cada grupo tem a sua marca, o seu estilo, e o corpo parece ser o grande tradutor dessa nova fase, os efeitos de comparação começam a surgir, o medo de não ser aceita pelo grupo faz com que a adolescente recorra a métodos que acredita ser eficazes na busca de um eu ideal e consequentemente um corpo ideal. Esta pesquisa discute as idealizações corporais das jovens encontradas durante a realização da pesquisa de campo, e as ligações que existem entre essa idealização e as constituições desse ideal sob a concepção do movimento corporal. A análise de dados se baseou em interpretações psicológicas acerca dos desenhos realizados pelas adolescentes. Visto que a Comunidade da Mangueira é um espaço multicultural (estilos de músicas, danças, esportes, entre outros), mas que em comum tem o corpo como o principal tradutor dessas vivências. A busca pelo corpo ideal está longe de ser integralmente satisfeito, sendo a cultura a grande responsável pela elaboração emocional, mental e principalmente corporal das adolescentes do grupo de Jazz do CCC. A aplicação da metodologia do Grupo Operativo teve como um dos objetivos desconstruir e reestruturar o imaginário das adolescentes o conceito de corpo ideal, que atualmente é visto de forma rígida e estereotipada pela sociedade contemporânea. Tal ferramenta foi muito útil no processo de desconstrução do conceito de corpo ideal por parte das meninas. As dinâmicas utilizadas tiveram como objetivos despertar novos olhares sobre o corpo, assim como criar situações onde as jovens pudessem buscar o melhor de si, mas sem fugir da própria realidade corporal.
The most plausible definition for this survey is one where the teens are defined according to the life history and sociocultural context in which the subject is found, which involves the transition to adulthood, changes in the mind, personality, behavior and especially in the body. The group of teens surveyed is in a stage of life of discovery, change (psychological identity and above all body) as well as any subject who is at that stage of life. With the beginning of adolescence, there is the formation of groups in which teenagers will identify. Each group has its own brand, its style, and the body seems to be the great translator of this new phase, the purpose of comparison beginning to emerge, the fear of not being accepted by the group makes the adolescent resorting to methods believed to be effective in search of an "ideal self" and therefore an "ideal body". This research discusses the idealization of the young body found during the conduct of field research, and links that exist between the idealization and the constitutions of this ideal in the conception of body movement. Data analysis was based on psychological interpretations about the drawings made by teenagers. It also addressed issues related to physical culture in Physical Education and its relationship to cultural identity, as this group of Jazz. Since the Commonwealth of hose is a multicultural area (styles of songs, dances, sports, etc.), but that is common in the body as the main translator of these experiences. The search for the "ideal body" is far from being fully satisfied, and the culture at large responsible for developing emotionally, mentally and especially adolescent girls' body of the Jazz group of CCC. The methodology of the Operational Group was one of the goals deconstruct and restructure the imagination of teenagers the concept of ideal body, which currently is seen in a rigid and stereotyped by contemporary society. The methodology of the Operational Group was a very useful tool in the process of deconstructing the concept of "ideal body" by the girls. The dynamics used were aimed awaken new perspectives on the body, so as to create situations where young people could get the best, but no escape from reality body.
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Mask, Lisa. "A Self-determination Theory Perspective of Women's Body Image and Eating-related Concerns in Response to Media Portrayals of the Female Body." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/20259.
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Grounded in Self-Determination Theory (Deci & Ryan, 1985, 2000), the purpose of this thesis was to investigate the protective role of self-determined (i.e., autonomous motivation) relative to non self-determined motivation (i.e., controlled motivation) in response to various media portrayals of the female body. Findings from three laboratory experiments support these hypotheses. Women who felt less self-determined in their daily activities (Study 1 and Study 3) and in the regulation of their eating behaviors (Study 2), perceived more pressure from the media to be thin (Study 1), experienced more body dissatisfaction (Study 1 and Study 2), expressed greater concerns over the quantity of food in their diets (Study 1), and reported more negative affect (Study 2) following exposure to a video which exemplified the societal ―thin ideal‖ compared to a video which did not. They also generated more negative self-appraisals of their body‘s appearance and competence (Study 3), experienced more body shame (Study 3), and reported more introjected reasons for restricting their actual intake of chocolate (Study 3) following exposure to video which depicted the female body as an instrument of women‘s actions compared to one which depicted the female body as object (Study 3). Conversely, women who felt more self-determined in their daily activities (Study 1 and Study 3) expressed greater concerns over the quality of food in their diet (Study 1) and reported less vitality (Study 3) in response to media portrayals of women engaged in self-care (Study 1) and physical activities (Study 3). However, body dissatisfied women who felt more self-determined in the regulation of their eating behaviors (Study 2) formulated more intentions to monitor their food intake and eat fewer unhealthy foods (Study 2) after viewing a video of thin female models compared to no models. Together, these findings support a protective function for self-determined motivation and a potentiating function for non self-determined motivation.
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Johansson, Karin. "Undressing the Androgynous Body : Analysing Gender Equality in the Representation of Androgynous Bodies within Contemporary Swedish Fashion." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Modevetenskap, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-145477.
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Stemming back thousands of years, the term androgyny continues to raise uncertainty regarding its definition in contemporary society. Simultaneously, the term has come to represent a body ideal and fashion that signals gender equality. Analysing gender equality in relation to androgyny, the aim of this study is to address power relations within gender in the construction of androgynous bodies in contemporary Swedish fashion. Building on feminist theories by Judith Butler and Luce Irigaray; along with Pierre Bourdieu's idea of habitus and Sara Ahmed's ideas, questioning what is considered natural, the historical connection between the straight male body as representation of a standard, gender-neutral body is highlighted. Through visual analysis of campaign images produced by Acne Studios, Filippa K and Tiger of Sweden, the masculine domination of the androgynous ideal is revealed and further problematized using focus groups and separate interviews to include consumers and retail workers, in order to answer the questions; how the androgynous body is represented in contemporary Swedish fashion, and in what ways the androgynous body represents gender equality versus inequality. Although the results show that androgyny questions traditional gender roles and encourages to express individuality in dress, the ideal also prioritizes the masculine, using the male straight body as sign of a gender-neutral and thus natural human body, making the female curvaceous body appear unnatural and sexualized.
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Šimkutė, Ieva. "Lieknumo idealai žiniasklaidoje: tarpkultūrinis aspektas." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2014. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2011~D_20140701_164507-68905.
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Magistro darbo objektas – lieknumo idealai žiniasklaidoje. Darbo tikslas - išanalizuoti skirtingų šalių visuomenėse ir žiniasklaidoje egzistuojančius lieknumo idealus. Darbo uždaviniai: aptarti teorijas, aiškinančias žiniasklaidos įtaką mitybai; išanalizuoti tarpinius žiniasklaidos poveikio kintamuosius bei žiniasklaidoje poveikį švelninančius veiksnius; apžvelgti istorinę lieknumo idealų raidą; išanalizuoti lieknumo idealus, egzistuojančius skirtingose visuomenėse šiandieniniame pasaulyje; išanalizuoti lieknumo idealus, propaguojamus žiniasklaidoje; atlikti lieknumo idealų, propaguojamų lietuviškuose serialuose, tyrimą; atlikti palyginamąją lieknumo idealų propaguojamų Lietuvos televizijų ir užsienio šalių serialuose analizę. Išnagrinėjus mokslinę literatūrą, išskirtos teorijos (socialinio lyginimo, kultivacijos ir t.t.) aiškinančios žiniasklaidos poveikį mitybai bei nustatyta, kad nė viena iš jų nėra pajėgi savarankiškai paaiškinti žiniasklaidos poveikio mitybai ir lieknumo idealui mechanizmo. Taip pat nustatyti tarpiniai žiniasklaidos poveikio kintamieji, galintys skatinti arba švelninti žiniasklaidos poveikį, bei žiniasklaidos poveikį švelninantys veiksniai. Išnagrinėjus istorinę lieknumo idealų raidą nustatyta, kad skirtingu laikotarpiu egzistavo skirtingi grožio bei lieknumo standartai, kuriems būdinga cikliška kaita. Taip pat nustatyta, kad net ir šiandieniniame pasaulyje skirtingose kultūrose egzistuoja skirtingi moterų bei vyrų lieknumo idealai. Išskirti svarbiausi... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]Object: body image ideals in the media. Objective: to analyze body image ideals prevailing in different countries. Tasks: review theories, contributing to explanation of media‘s influence on one‘s eating behavior; analyze the moderators and mitigating factors of media‘s influence; review the historical development of body image ideals; analyze modern body image ideals prevailing in different societies; analyze body image ideals in the media; research body image ideals, prevailing in the Lithuanian TV series; compare body image ideals, prevailing in Lithuanian and foreign country’s TV series. Methods: analysis and generalization of related literature; quantitative content analysis of body image ideals portrayed in Lithuanian TV series; comparative analysis of body image ideals portrayed in Lithuanian and USA TV series. Having analyzed the wide scope of science literature, theories contributing to explanation of media’s influence on eating behavior were abstracted, and the conclusion that neither of them is capable of giving the complete explanation of the media’s influence on one’s eating behavior process was drawn. It is only explicit that media does influence our self-esteem and eating behavior as a result. Also, moderators capable of either mitigating or intensifying medias influence were pointed out, as well as mitigating factors, that can be used for reducing negative media influence on eating behavior. Review of the body image ideals throughout the history revealed... [to full text]
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Almeida, Tatiana Rodrigues de. "Através do espelho: imagem corporal e corpo ideal no câncer da mama." Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF), 2013. https://repositorio.ufjf.br/jspui/handle/ufjf/2351.
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Na sociedade moderna, é inegável a crescente supervalorização do corpo como um instrumento de inclusão social e obtenção de poder. Aqueles que não se encaixam em um certo perfil estético, acabam vítimas de preconceitos e discriminação. Esta realidade pode ser agravada ainda mais quando as alterações corporais, decorrentes de cirurgias ou outros procedimentos médicos, encontram-se associadas a um adoecimento, como no caso do câncer da mama. Considerada uma das patologias mais temidas pelas mulheres por atingir um órgão carregado de significações ligadas à sexualidade, feminilidade e ao desempenho da maternidade, o câncer da mama afeta não apenas o corpo biológico mas, principalmente, alguns aspectos psicossociais da paciente, dentre estes destaca-se sua imagem corporal. Dessa forma, cabe investigar a imagem corporal de mulheres submetidas à cirurgia mamária por câncer da mama e o possível impacto do corpo ideal veiculado pela cultura contemporânea. Para tanto, realizou-se um estudo qualitativo com uma amostra composta por doze mulheres que passaram por cirurgia, total ou conservadora, após o diagnóstico de câncer da mama. Os resultados foram trabalhados à luz da Análise de Discurso pecheutiana e do referencial psicanalítico.
In a modern society, it is undeniable the increasing overvaluation of the body as an instrument of social inclusion and obtain power. Those who do not fit in right profile aesthetic, become victims of prejudice and discrimination. This situation may be further aggravated when the body changes resulting from surgery or other medical procedures, are associated with a disease, such as breast cancer. Considered one of the most feared diseases by women because it reach a body part full of meanings related to sexuality, femininity and performance of motherhood, the breast cancer affects not only the biological body but mainly some psychosocial aspects of the patient, among these stands your body image. Thereby it is important to investigate women body image submitted a breast surgery because of a breast cancer and the possible impact of the ideal body aired by the contemporary culture. Therefore, we performed a qualitative study with a sample of twelve women who had surgery, total or conservative, after breast cancer diagnosis. The results were worked out through the pecheutiana Discourse Analysis and psychoanalysis.
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Barcus, Sonja Marie. "Body cathexis and the ideal female figure of black and white college females." Virtual Press, 1990. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/722174.
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The body cathexis and "ideal" female figure for Black college females and White college females were investigated. The Body Cathexis Scale was administered to determine students' level of satisfaction with their bodies. Self reports of each student's ideal female measurements were also examined. It was hypothesized that Black college females tend to possess greater satisfaction with their body image than White college females. Black college females were hypothesized to report less restrictive measurements for what they believe would make up the ideal female figure than White college females. Results showed that some significant differences were found between Black and White college females. Of the 46 items on the Body Cathexis Scale, significant differences between Black and White college females were found on seven items with five indicating higher satisfaction of Black college females and two indicating that White college females had higher satisfaction. Of the five measurements of ideal female figure, only one differed significantly with the Black college females possessing a less restrictive measurement. Thirty-nine items on the Body Cathexis Scale and four on the ideal female figure measurements showed no significant difference. Therefore, the hypothesis of Black college females being more satisfied with their bodies and reporting less restrictive ideal female figure measurements than White college females was not supported.Department of Counseling Psychology and Guidance Services
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Moore, Erin Lindsey. "Thin-Ideal Internalization, Body Misperception, and Their Association with Weight Control Behaviors Among Adolescent Girls." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2011. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3053.
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Negative body image and preoccupation with weight are the norm for most women and girls in Western society, despite their potentially harmful consequences for psychological and physical wellness. While we know that many in this population experience negative feelings towards their bodies, we do not know if their beliefs about their body size are accurate and what effect a correct or incorrect assessment of one's body size has in terms of actual behavior. I examine this question among adolescent girls using data from the 2002 Health Behaviors in School-Age Children Survey. With a sample of 2,784 girls between the ages of 11 and 17, I run Poisson regression models to assess the relationship between actual and perceived body size and healthy versus unhealthy weight control behaviors, controlling for a number of indicators known to be associated with weight control, including parent and peer relationships, media exposure, and age of first menstruation. Results indicate that a discrepancy between actual and perceived body size is associated with increases in both positive and negative weight control behaviors, though the association with negative weight control behaviors is much larger. Starting puberty later is associated with a decrease in both types of these behaviors. Difficult family relationships appear to be more strongly associated with negative weight control than positive weight control. Other associations are discussed and suggestions for future research are offered.
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Grose, Michelle Leigh Stone Sara J. "Individual body satisfaction and perception the effect of the media's ideal body image on female college students /." Waco, Tex. : Baylor University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/5322.
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Greene, Catie A. "College Athletes’ Reflective Judgment: A Moderator between Sport and Sociocultural Pressures, Body Ideal Internalization, and Body Dissatisfaction." W&M ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1463412417.
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The purpose of this research was to investigate the sociocultural model of eating disorder development among male and female college student-athletes as moderated by students’ level of Reflective Judgment, a stage theory of adult epistemology marked by increasing cognitive complexity. A review of literature on the established relationships between pressures in sociocultural and sport environments to adhere to body ideals and resulting body dissatisfaction as mediated by body ideal internalization was presented. The Reflective Judgment model was hypothesized as a moderator to body ideal internalization due to its relationship with feminist identity development (a moderator among females) and applicability to both genders to inform current interventions. A sample of 131 NCAA college student-athletes (33 male; 98 female) completed the Perceived Sociocultural Pressures Scale (PSPS), the Weight Pressures in Sport Scale (WPS), the Body Parts Satisfaction Scale (BPSS), the Sociocultural Attitudes Towards Appearance Scale-3 (SATAQ-3) and the Reasoning about Current Issues test (RCI). Multi-sample Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was utilized to examine the hypothesized relationships between the variables and revealed significant differences between genders. In general, males’ higher Reflective Judgment was a full mediator between pressures and body dissatisfaction, resulting in lower body dissatisfaction. However, females’ higher Reflective Judgment was a moderator between pressures and body ideal internalization, resulting in higher body dissatisfaction. These major findings as well as additional findings as elaborated by curvilinear regression analysis, current literature, and theories of socialized gender differences in epistemology were presented. Limitations, areas for further research, and implications for practice were identified.
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Santos, Helena Miranda dos. "Corpos perfeitos: o “ideal” de beleza das mulheres construído na contemporaneidade." Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, 2008. http://repositorio.ufba.br/ri/handle/ri/19060.
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Esta Dissertação tem por objetivo o estudo do discurso hegemônico sobre o modelo de beleza “ideal” que vem sendo socialmente construído para a mulher de classe média, na atualidade. Neste sentido, foram entrevistadas 20 mulheres (10 adolescentes e 10 jovens) residentes na cidade de Salvador e pertencentes às classes média-média e média-baixa, de modo a identificar as insatisfações e os desejos de modificar a sua aparência física (o corpo, o rosto e os cabelos) para alcance desse “padrão ideal". A base teórico-metodológica deste estudo se pautou em procedimentos da análise do discurso crítica articuladas a abordagens teóricas feministas contemporâneas nas discussões sobre gênero, corpo e mídia. A análise dos dados se restringiu às entrevistadas jovens e apontou para a presença, em suas falas, da ideologia dominante sobre a beleza articulada a constructos discursivos alternativos e da área médica/saúde. As discussões também acusaram o baixo nível de consciência dessas entrevistadas sobre a imposição social ao modelo de beleza que é estimulado pela mídia em favor da indústria de consumo e apontaram a existência de uma relação direta entre os investimentos de beleza e a busca ou manutenção de relacionamentos heterossexuais. The objective of this research project was to study the hegemonic discourse about the “ideal” beauty model that has been socially constructed for middle-class woman. To this end, 20 women (10 teenagers and 10 young women) were interviewed who live in the city of Salvador and belong to the middle and middle-lower social classes, to identify their dissatisfactions and desires regarding modifications of their physical appearance (body, face and hair) in order to obtain the “ideal model.” The theoretical and methodological basis of this study was founded on critical discourse analysis associated with contemporary feminist theoretical approaches in discussions on gender, body and the media. Data analysis was limited to interviews with the young women and demonstrated, in the information they provided, effects of a dominant beauty ideology related to alternative discursive constructs and to the medical / healthcare field. The discussions also demonstrated the low level of consciousness of the women interviewed with regard to the social imposition of a beauty model that is stimulated by the media to favor the industry of consumption and also demonstrated the existence of a direct relationship between investments in beauty and the search for or maintenance of heterosexual relationships.
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Pattberg, Miller Ottilia. ""Feelin' Good As Hell" : En fallstudie av diskurserna runt artisten Lizzo." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för musik och bild (MB), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-101562.
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I detta arbete görs en undersökande fallstudie av artisten Lizzo, med fokus på attvisa hur den allmänna samhälleliga diskursen rörande större kroppar påverkar enartist som kroppsligt står utanför rådande kroppsliga ideal. Med utgångspunkt i skrivna intervjuer har ett grundresonemang etablerats, och vidare har detta följt med genom analys av konserter, en musikvideo, en musikanalys och en låttextanalys. Materialet analyseras med hjälp av Faircloughs diskursbegrepp som metod där viss fokus även lagts på Boréus tillägg om subjektspositioner, och med intersektionalitet, body positivity och Ekmans (2012) begrepp viktordningen som teoretiskt ramverk.Analysen visar på att Lizzo som enskilt fall arbetar mot den allmänt vedertagna samhällsdiskursen runt kroppsideal och den större kroppen genom både fysisk handling på olika sätt och språkligt agerande med motdiskurs diskurs där inslag från bland annat body positivity-rörelsen syns med. Resultatet visar att Lizzo reagerar mot samhällsdiskursen, med sitt artisteri och med sin persona, med en motdiskurs som går emot de rådande skönhetsideal både språkligt och fysiskt, och kan argumenteras har skapat en ny form av kroppsaktivism.
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Henley, Stephanie A. "The Effects of the Muscular Ideal Prime in a Lexical Decision Task." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1403544253.
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Olsson, Maria, and Maja Wolt. "Gymnasieelevers attityder till det rådande skönhetsidealet : en kvantitativ studie." Thesis, Stockholm University, Department of Social Work, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-6905.
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The purpose of the study was to inquire into pupils’ attitude towards the current beauty ideal from a gender- and an ethnicity perspective. The study was based on a quantitative survey among 116 young students about prevailing beauty ideal from two different schools in the Stockholm area. The result showed that the students are partially characterized by the stereotyped images of women and men but that there are tendencies towards another view especially among the girls. It is however clear that appearance still is important. A majority of the boys agreed in the statements that it is important to have a good-looking girlfriend and that girls should be thin. Both sexes believed that a person who is beautiful gets better treatment. Both also agreed in the statement that boys should be well trained. Most of the students are however satisfied with their own appearance and body and would not want to change. The study has shown that there are differences in attitudes when it comes to both gender and ethnicity. The emerged results were introduced in three different themes and were analyzed on the basis of gender-theory and metacognition and were compared with prior research, which showed that there were both similarities and differences.
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Pienaar, Kiran Merle. "A critical analysis of oppositional discourses of the ideal female body in women's conversations." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002641.
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Socialisation agents such as the popular media and same age female peers construct and reproduce notions of what is physically ideal, feminine and beautiful in a woman (Hesse-Biber 1996). My interest lies in how a group of young women reproduce, contest and possibly transform such notions in conversations with their same age female friends. The study aims to answer the following question: What ideologies are reflected and perpetuated in the discourses associated with the ideal female body? Since notions of what is ideal and beautiful are indeterminate and in perpetual flux, I focus in particular on areas of contradiction and contestation in the body talk conversations. As such, the analysis examines three extracts in which the young women draw on oppositional discourses to construct notions of female beauty. I believe that these extracts represent discursive struggles in relation to the dominant Western ideal of the slim, toned female body, an ideal which more closely resembles a newly pubescent girl's body than the curvaceous, shapely body of an adult woman (Bartky 2003; Grogan 1998). My analysis is based on conversational data collected from sixteen, white adolescent English-speaking women between the ages of fourteen and eighteen who attend a boarding school in Grahamstown. I elicited the body talk data using three stimulus exercises designed to encourage discussion on topics such as the overweight female body, dieting and the ideal body. I selected three extracts from the recorded conversations and used the methodological framework of Critical Discourse Analysis to analyse the data. This framework proposes three interdependent stages of analysis: 1) the Description of the formal features of the text, 2) the Interpretation of the text in terms of the participants' background assumptions, the situational context and the intertextual context and 3) an Explanation of the text in light of the sociocultural context and the text's contribution to the reproduction or transformation of the status quo. Since I was present during the conversational recordings and contributed to the discussions, part of the interpretation stage of analysis critically evaluates how the asymmetrical power relations between myself and the participants influenced the conversations. In this regard, my findings attest to my coercive role in promoting conservative, reactionary discourses which sustain the dominance of traditional ideologies of female beauty and which stifle oppositional ideologies. My interpretation of the extracts also reveals that, in their discussions of topics such as excess weight, female ageing and cosmetic surgery, the young women negotiate alternative conceptions of what constitutes the ideal female body. However, the articulation of an alternative beauty ideal, one which values women of different body sizes and ages is not sustained in the extracts. By discussing the relationship between these alternative constructions and dominant norms of beauty, I show how the prevailing ideal of the youthful, slim, toned female body wins out in the conversations. The interpretation of the extracts also reveals the participants' preoccupation with the pursuit of health and well¬being. In this respect, the young women construct the ideal body as not only slim and youthful, but also healthy. In my explanation of the extracts, I explore the sociocultural factors which have contributed to the rise of the health ethic. In concluding, I argue that the valorisation of the healthy body in the conversations, far from challenging the imperative to be thin, actually reinforces it by constructing dieting as a necessary adjunct to the pursuit of health. From this perspective, the preoccupation with attaining the ideal thin, toned body can be justified in terms of a desire to be healthy.
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Fung, Yiu-shing, and 馮耀成. "Zheng Guanying's (1841-1923) ideas of parliamentary reform as expounded in his Shengshi Weiyan." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1998. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31951971.
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McCabe, Douglas Anthony. "Morality, the body, and Breyten Breytenbach's The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist, an inter-disciplinary study of the idea that caring for others constitutes bodily identity." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq22347.pdf.
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Johnson, Linnéa, and Natalia Sener. "Kroppen på display : En kvalitativ studie om unga kvinnors upplevelser och erfarenheter av sexualisering." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-34243.
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Denna studie, skriven av Natalia Sener och Linnéa Johnson, ämnar undersöka hur unga kvinnor upplever att deras kroppar blir sexualiserade och hur de uppfattar att fenomenet avspeglas i sociala medier. Empirin är insamlad genom sex stycken semistrukturerade intervjuer med unga kvinnor som delar med sig av egna tankar och erfarenheter kring sexualisering och sociala medier och hur dessa aspekter påverkar varandra. Studien utgår från en teori gällande objektifiering av Fredrickson och Roberts, Youngs modell för förtryck samt West och Zimmermans teori om könspraktiker. Studiens resultat visar att unga kvinnor påverkas av ideal och sexualiserade kroppar på sociala medier i stor omfattning. Respondenterna anser att kvinnors kroppar granskas och bedöms av utomstående personer. Sociala medier blir här en arena för att upprätthålla de rådande strukturerna men samtidigt synliggöra dem för att kunna motverka dem. En del av respondenterna har till och med tagit aktiva val för att undvika att exponeras för sexualiserat material. Vidare belyser resultatet hur kvinnor idag, i ett motsatsförhållande, använder sociala medier för att med hjälp av sina kroppar motverka ideal och normativa trender vad gäller utseende.This study, written by Natalia Sener and Linnéa Johnson, aims to investigate how young women experience their bodies being sexualized and how the phenomenon is reflected in social media. The empirics are collected through six semi structured interviews with young women who share their own thoughts and experiences about sexualization and social media and how these affect each other. The study is based on a theory of objectification by Fredrickson and Roberts, Young's model for oppression, and West and Zimmerman's theory of gender practices. The study results show that young women are widely influenced by ideals and sexualized bodies on social media. Respondents consider that women's bodies are examined and judged by third parties. Social media becomes an arena for maintaining existing structures, but at the same time visualizing them in order to counteract them. Some respondents have even taken active choices to avoid being exposed to sexualized material. Furthermore, the result illustrates how women today, in opposition, use social media to counteract ideals and normative trends regarding their appearance.
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Eriksson, Kristoffer. "Strong is the new... : En kritisk diskursanalys av svenska fitnessbloggar." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-95181.
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The purpose of this thesisis to examine the female body ideal of the Swedish fitness blogs and how it is reproduced. To answer the research question five of the most read female fitness blogs were chosen for a critical discourse analysis. The results show that pictures is an important communication event. The ideal is reproduced by representing bodies with desirable attributes in environments and poses that communicates positive feelings. There is a dialectic relation between picture and text in each published post. To get the text and picture accentuate the ideologies of the fitness blogs, often with strong words that reminiscent infatuation and euphoria. The intertextual chain in the blogs frames training, fitness and the ideal female body as a healthy, happy and successful subject position.
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Liebig, Yvonne D. "Body Ideals and Weight Bias: Does Ethnicity Make a Difference?" Thesis, University of North Texas, 2006. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc5360/.
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The current study investigates whether there are there ethnic differences between Caucasian, African American, and Hispanic women in (a) weight bias, (b) body ideals, (c) social awareness and internalization of appearance standards and (d) physical activity in relation to these constructs. Participants included 130 Caucasian, 103 African American, and 52 Hispanic undergraduate female students. Participants completed a demographic survey, the Antifat Attitudes Test, the Figure Rating Scale, the Sociocultural Attitudes toward Appearance Questionnaire, and the Multiethnic Identity Measure questionnaire. No significant ethnic group differences in weight bias emerged. Differences were found for participants' perceptions of the culturally ideal female body shape, as well as awareness and internalization. No relationship was found between physical activity and weight bias, body ideals, and appearance standards. Future researchers should use health weight classifications, in addition to ethnicity, to examine weight bias, body ideals, and physical activity.
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Davidson, Tina. "Hemlines and hairdos, body management for the feminine ideal in the Canadian Women's Army Corps." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0027/MQ52047.pdf.
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Boyce, Jessica Anne. "Experimental Exposure to Ideal-Body Media Images: Restrained Eaters' Self-Evaluation, Mood and Food Intake." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Psychology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/7803.
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The mass media project a thin “ideal” female body type (ideal-body media; IBM) onto young women. Sociocultural theorists propose that, through processes of internalisation and social comparison, IBM-exposure promotes negative body satisfaction and unhealthy eating behaviour. In three experiments, I investigated how IBM-exposure affected restrained eaters. Restrained eaters are women who are trying to lose weight by attempting to restrict their food intake. Previous researchers have found that restrained eaters perceive and process body-related information more readily than others do. The literature surrounding restrained eaters’ IBM-related self-evaluations and food intake is inconsistent. Some researchers have found restrained eaters to report positive self-evaluative effects and others have not. Furthermore, the majority of researchers report that viewing IBM triggers restrained eaters’ eating. However, this effect is not always replicated and this might be because restrained eaters have been identified with different restraint scales. To test this idea, I used two conceptually different dietary restraint scales throughout the current experiments: the concern for dieting subscale of the Restraint Scale (RS-CD) and the Dietary Intent Scale (DIS). Furthermore, because some researchers have argued that participants within previous (non-restraint) studies reported negative IBM-effects because they thought that they were meant to be negatively affected (i.e., demand characteristics), reducing these demands was a focus throughout the current experiments. In Study 1, demand characteristics were minimised by employing implicit outcome measures and by incorporating a two-study pre-text to separate the experimental manipulation from the explicitly measured dependent variables. Under the guise of a hunger and memory study, restrained and unrestrained eaters (N = 107) were required to concentrate on a slideshow of IBM- or Control-images for 2-minutes and complete an associated memory test (i.e., advertent attention). Restrained eaters (RS-CD and DIS) exposed to IBM reported negative effects (e.g., mood). However, IBM-exposure did not trigger their food intake in an unrelated taste test with M&Ms. I interpreted these findings alongside control theory. This is the theory that goal-related negative affect encourages increased goal-performance. I reasoned that paying advertent attention to the IBM caused goal-related negative affect, which triggered goal effort (i.e., dietary restraint). This theory was further tested in Study 2. The same manipulation was used in Study 2 (N = 268), which was touted as a study about participants’ personality and task performance. Here, I aimed to test restrained eaters’ implicit approach and avoidance tendencies toward diet and food stimuli. Therefore, a joystick lexical decision task (LDT) was used instead of a taste test. Restrained eaters’ self-evaluations (e.g., self-esteem) were not significantly affected by being in different experimental conditions. However, restrained eaters (RS-CD) in the IBM-condition avoided high-calorie food words during the LDT significantly faster than other participants did. These results (Studies 1 and 2) differed from previous research. This difference was attributed to the high level of advertent attention participants paid to the IBM in my experiments. Therefore, in Study 3, I manipulated participants’ attention levels. Participants (N = 171) were made to believe that the experimental slideshow and LDT were part of a task performance study. Although participants who were assigned to the Inadvertent- and Advertent-Attention conditions were exposed to the same slideshow (IBM- or Neutral-images), the experimenter did not ask participants in the Inadvertent-condition to focus on the slideshow. After this experimental manipulation, participants completed the joystick LDT. Subsequently, they completed a second unrelated study about personality and the five human senses (e.g., taste, touch, etcetera). All participants were randomly assigned to the taste-condition and completed a taste test. Inconsistent with my previous results, I did not obtain significant self-evaluation or LDT results. Furthermore, restrained eaters (RS-CD) who paid advertent attention to the IBM consumed more food than others consumed during the taste test. In comparison, restrained eaters were buffered from this effect if they had paid inadvertent attention to the IBM-images. When comparing these (nonsignificant and significant) results with previous research, it seems that restrained eaters’ IBM-responses are highly specific to environmental and/or experimental settings. I developed a preliminary theory to predict restrained eaters’ behaviour. This theory takes into account participants’ restraint status, restraint success, IBM-related attention and their eating-related attention.
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Weinberg, Molly C. "The Quest For Power In Desperate Housewives: Ideal Femininity Through The Body, Emotion, and Employment." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1395604282.
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