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    Body Image‚ Women and The Media How realistic is the media’s presentation of women? Women and men come in all shapes and size‚ yet constantly the media presents us with only one ‘image’ – a very slender and unrealistic one. Only a small percentage of women actually look that way naturally. We forget when looking at these pictures that the best lighting and photographic equipment‚ hours with make-up artists and wardrobe assistants have been necessary to make these women look so ‘natural’. What

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    Media plays a significant role and known as the most formidable means of communication in our lives in 21st century. Media images contribute to the socialization of young people across a board range of areas‚ particularly those in which the viewer has relatively limited real-world experience (Huston et al.‚ 1992). Nowadays‚ most of the people will get their information through the mass media that they can get if easily which are from the internet‚ electronic devises‚ for an example television and

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    Spangenberg BritLit‚ period 5 28 March 2011 If looks could kill For most people in order to feel good they must look good‚ however for some people looking good doesn’t cut it they have to be perfect. In our minds every one of us has an idealized body image which comes from “a mixture of ideas and feeling about one’s physical appearance…linked to self esteem and emotional stability” (Maggie 2). Factors that influence ones self- perceptions are the 21st century media‚ peers‚ and family basically our

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    The nonfiction article‚ "Here’s to Looking at You: Is Body Image Being Taken Too Seriously?" by Annie Rispin‚ is about the struggles of body image of both women and men in college and how current media plays a large part in the issue. Rispin suggests that the pressure college students have to look affects them‚ especially in our culture of cell phones and media. Many college students are affected by the problems of body image. Body image is how people now judge‚ interact‚ and categorize you as

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    aren’t and images which are much more powerful and create an ongoing debate about whether the portrayal f women in advertising is a serious issue. Various studies have been conducted and many opinions are available on this subject. As an example‚ Jean Kilbourne‚ (cited by Robin Gerber) a famous media activist of raising awareness about the exploitation of women in advertising claims that:" the overwhelming presence of media images of painfully thin women means that the real women’s bodies have become

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    are not and develop negative body image. From a young age‚ people begin to pay more attention to how they picture themselves and how they think others see them. Some develop positive body image‚ but others develop negative body image. It is estimated that millions more struggle with depression‚ anxiety‚ and low self-esteem tied to dissatisfaction with body image (“Body Image & The Media” 1). According to Fitzhugh‚ some contributions to negative body image may be being neglected or

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    lowering self-esteem to women is the unattainable body image produced by the media. When a company creates an advertisement they usually cast good looking people to represent them. When this idea is taken to an extreme with digital restoration and photo shop this can lead to the distortion of peoples self-image. This distortion can turn into disorders like anorexia‚ bulimia‚ and body shaming. These unrealistic portrayals of women can have the most effect on young girls because they tend to be very impressionable

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    [being] manipulated by images of proper womanhood” (Orbach 451) through todays media.  Americans spend over 250 billion hours watching television every year; at such a high number‚ the power for the media to influence the minds of young women today is rapidly increasing. The media has begun to demand that women “occupy [themselves] with a self-image that others will find pleasing and attractive” (450). Today’s media has become a huge benefactor for women in society’s poor body acceptance. Although

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    female as: “Female [fee-mayl]- (n.): a person bearing two X chromosomes in the cell nuclei and normally having a vagina‚ a uterus and ovaries‚ and developing at puberty a relatively rounded body and enlarged breasts and retaining a beardless face; a girl or woman.” Mass media generates the picture perfect image of a woman. The “perfect” woman is a generalized fantasy derived from media and how society shaped the media. But what aspects exactly make a female a woman? The fashion industry might say

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    G Model BODYIM-242; No of Pages 9 Body Image xxx (2009) xxx–xxx Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Body Image journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/bodyimage Multidimensional body image comparisons among patients with eating disorders‚ body dysmorphic disorder‚ and clinical controls: A multisite study§ Joshua I. Hrabosky a‚*‚ Thomas F. Cash b‚ David Veale c‚ Fugen Neziroglu d‚ Elizabeth A. Soll e‚1‚ David M. Garner e‚3‚ Melissa Strachan-Kinser f‚2‚ Bette Bakke g‚ Laura

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