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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Women in mass media."”.
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"What's your fantasy?" the sexual objectification of women in rap videos
… hop has been a part of their cultural identity since the 1970s (George 1998; Rose 1994). From its inception three decades ago, hip hop has grown from an urban (predominantly black and Latino youth) culture into an international youth phenomenon, transcending racial and ethnic lines. Prior …
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The construction of a particular version of the modern Indonesian women in contemporary Indonesian women's magazines
This thesis analyses the representation of women in two women’s magazines in Indonesia. It compares and contrasts the representation of women under the New Order Regime (1966-1998) and the Reformasi (reformation) period (1998-1999) through an analysis of the content of Kartini and Femina, between …
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Liberating articles or oppressive reproduction?: A rhetorical analysis of popular media discourse concerning anorexia
There has been much discussion in the last decade about anorexia nervosa. Typically, the focus in popular media coverage of anorexia has been on the character profile of a "typical" anorectic; on possible "triggers" of the disorder; and on medical, including psychological, treatment and effects of …
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Girl Power: Feminism, Girlculture and the Popular Media
This project is an interrogation of three examples from recent popular culture of girlculture, specifically texts that target young female consumers: the Spice Girls, Scream and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. These examples are fundamentally different than texts from earlier female targeted generic …
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The Effects of Media Exposure on Body Satisfaction, Beliefs About Attractiveness, Mood and Bulimic Symptomatology Among College Women
… Shaw (1994) proposed several mechanisms that may mediate the adverse effects of media exposure to the thin ideal including internalization of the thin-ideal, negative affect, and body dissatisfaction. The purpose of this study was to extend initial research of Stice and Shaw (1994) by …
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Yummy Mummies, baby bumps and body image : shaping 'Postmodern' pregnancy in Melbourne, Australia
This thesis is based on a longitudinal study exploring feelings about body image and `fatness' in a sample of 38 pregnant women living in Melbourne. Framed within discourses of social surveillance, biomedicine, and celebrity, the thesis argues that the most important articulations of body image …