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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Beauty ideals"”.
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The Color(s) of Perfection: The Feminine Body, Beauty Ideals, and Identity in Postwar America, 1945-1970
… scholars have not recognized how malleable these ideals were and how susceptible the female figure is when seemingly disparate factors like consumerism, fashion trends, foreign policy, medical opinion, and mortality collide.</p><p>This dissertation explores and analyzes how women of different …
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I Come Home to Myself
… a portrait of their individual relationships to beauty and beauty work. The documentary contrasts the varied experiences that have shaped their beauty practices as well as their negotiations with beauty work. The film also explores the different internal and external forces that influence their …
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The lifecycle of a social media beauty trend and the impact of digital beauty-focused communities on consumers' body alteration behaviour.
… have established as both a breeding ground for beauty trends and a cultural meeting point for interactions with these trends. Beauty ideals have existed within human societies for centuries and the media are identified as an influential force in their creation and proliferation. However, social …
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Is fair lovely?: A cross-cultural comparison of the impact of colorism on mental health in South Asian women
… satisfaction, internalization of skin color beauty ideals) predicting skin-lightening product use. Results of my structural equation model with South Asian women, as well as implications for interventions and clinical practice, will be discussed.
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Changing the Face of Beauty, Changing the Rules of Marketing: The Dove Campaign for Real Beauty
… 2004, Dove® launched its Campaign for Real Beauty (CFRB) with the aim of establishing a more inclusive definition of beauty worldwide— one that would eradicate the narrow beauty ideals and standards that deliver a corrupt and self-damaging message to females while setting unrealistic …
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Evolution of Female Profile Aesthetics in Fashion Magazines Over the Last Century (1920-2019): An Orthodontic Soft-Tissue Analysis
Beauty standards have evolved over time, and understanding the dynamic nature of facial aesthetics is crucial for orthodontic practice. This study aimed to assess changes in female soft-tissue facial profile aesthetics as portrayed in fashion media over the past century. A total of 1,527 profile …
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RESISTANCE TO CULTURAL SEXUAL OBJECTIFICATION: MEASUREMENT DEVELOPMENT AND PSYCHOMETRIC EVALUATION.
… tool centered on resistance to sociocultural beauty ideals and physical standards of appearance. Theoretical reviews, focus group interviews (n =33), and expert feedback formed the basis for item development and modification. An initial pilot sample (n = 169) offered data for initial …
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The impact of augmented reality on body image perceptions in digital media
… examines the impact of Augmented Reality (AR) on beauty standards, focusing on how AR technologies in digital media influence consumers' perceptions of ideal body images. The research uses a mixed-methods approach to explore the relationships between AR application usage and body image …
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Bollywood and Colourism: Exploring the discourse of Blackness in Hindustani cinema
… narratives, shaping ideological codes, dictating beauty ideals and perpetuating cinematic dogmas. It also investigates the link between Colourism and race through an exploration of the representation of Afro-identities strongly rooted into mimicry within the microcosmic cultural sphere of …
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The art of Maquis: makeup and making up in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
… informing gender constructions, contemporary beauty ideals and female agency in Ouagadougou.
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An exploration of the gender and sexual dynamics for women performers in the Cape Town jazz community
… implications of stringent gender stereotypes, beauty ideals and vicious hyper-sexualization. Moreover, I explore the analytics of power within this specific culture and its' effect on jazz women. Their accounts reveal how the Cape Town jazz community remains saturated with gender stereotypes …
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Decoding dominant ideals of beauty : Young women’s engagements with media representations, social environments, and media literacy
Beauty is an important and complex concept. A variety of sociocultural environments articulates beauty and physical attractiveness to success and popularity. The influence of media deserves particular attention as it is able to create and circulate dominant ideals of beauty. Research suggests that …
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Campaigning for Real Beauty or Reinforcing Social Norms? An Analysis of the Correlation of the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty and Advertisements in Fashion Magazines
… for widening the definition and discussion of beauty through the use of nontraditional models in its <italic>Campaign for Real Beauty<italic> advertisements. This study examined the content of the <italic>Campaign for Real Beauty<italic> ads and the content of ads in magazines that ran …
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Down to the Roots: A Qualitative Analysis of the Psychological Impacts of Messages Black Women Receive Regarding their Hair
… on all women to accommodate to mainstream beauty ideals. However, there are unique pressures that complicate this narrative for Black women, who have to combat both the pressures of racism and sexism. Many African American women have a naturally kinky hair texture that is distinctly …
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The Model Diet: Building a tailored dietary intervention for fashion models to meet the needs of the individual and the occupational and social constraints of the fashion industry
… 2 ), unhealthy eating practices and unrealistic beauty ideals. While much research has examined the effect fashion models have on body dissatisfaction, body dysmorphia, body-ideal and disordered eating, their nutritional health has not been studied. This thesis endeavoured to determine the …
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Understanding the Dynamics of Extreme Healthy Eating Practices: A Qualitative Exploration of the Role of Online Messages, Culture, and Family
… on how to discipline their body. Hegemonic beauty ideals were promoted, female bodies were objectified, and food was medicalised. One key difference between the two website genres was that on HE websites, healthy/restrictive eating was portrayed as illness preventative and was related to a …
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The symbolic consumption of cosmetic surgery: exploring the sociocultural context and the dynamics of self-concept
Ao longo da última década tem havido um crescente interesse académico no estudo da imagem corporal e dos comportamentos ligados à mudança corporal. A investigação tem conceptualizado a cirurgia estética como parte de um espectro de comportamentos de mudança corporal que tem sido normalizado nos …