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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Body Positivity"”.
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Redefining health on Instagram: Women's experiences with body positivity and body neutrality
This thesis explores women’s experiences with body positivity and body neutrality movements on social media. Body positivity is an umbrella term for a movement that resists diet culture and beauty standards which emphasize thinness and whiteness. Mainstream body positivity focuses on loving one’s …
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The Thin Ideal and Body Positivity: How Do Influencers Affect Female Instagram Users?
… there has also been an increase of exposure to body image ideals via photos shared online. Accordingly, it has become more important to understand the association between social media and how its users view their body image, as well as how social media users’ practices are affected by posted …
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Are All Bodies Good Bodies?: Redefining Femininity Through Discourses of Health, Beauty, and Gender in Body Positivity
… of hashtag feminism a new group on social media, body positivity, has become the buzzword among celebrities, news conglomerates, and fashion companies. This study draws on interviews with body positive influencers and Instagram posts tagged #bodypositive and #fitspiration to examine the extent to …
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Análisis de las percepciones sobre las influencers en las prácticas discursivas en el caso de la tendencia Body Positivity desde el modelo de autoridad cognitiva: casos Pia Fitmess y Mariana Hidalgo
… En respuesta a esta realidad, surge el body positivity con el objetivo de que las mujeres se acepten tal y como son. Sin embargo, algunos autores consideran que esta tendencia incentiva a la simple aceptación del cuerpo, lo cual podría crear problemas de salud graves. En esta línea, …
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The pregnant pause: exploring expectations and experiences of pregnancy and motherhood in a Cape Town body positive community
… of pregnancy and motherhood held by women in body positive communities in Cape Town, South Africa. By focusing on their expectations and experiences of these concepts within body positive communities and their wider social circles, the research examines what it means for women to want or not …
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Thickening Theory: Memoir, Affect, and Fat Feminist Futures
… the 1960s and 1970s (Wykes, 2014), contemporary 'body positivity' has commodified feminist ideologies to promote a sanitized fat politic that seeks participation in normative structures or what Da'Shaun L. Harrison (2021) calls "Desire/ability" (p. 12). Moreover, feminist studies has, at times, …
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Can Adolescent Girls' Self-esteem be Linked to Body Representation in Physical Education?: A Synthesis Project
… is to review the literature on the impact of body representation in physical education on adolescent girls’ self-esteem. To guide the purpose of this project, the following questions are used; (a) adolescent girls who express low self-esteem due to body representation within physical …