Am I Thin Enough Yet?: The Cult of Thinness and the Commercialization of Identity - Couverture souple

Hesse-Biber, Sharlene

 
9780195117912: Am I Thin Enough Yet?: The Cult of Thinness and the Commercialization of Identity

Synopsis

In The Cult of Thinness, Sharlene Hesse-Biber builds on interviews with young women about their weight and body image and connects women's eating patterns to images in popular culture. Linking eating disorders to contemporary social, cultural, and economic pressures on women to be thin, Hesse-Biber argues that diet and workout industries profit from this cult of thinness and help to perpetuate it.

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À propos de l'auteur

Sharlene Hesse-Biber is Associate Professor of Sociology at Boston College. The former director of the Women's Studies Program at Boston College, she is founding director of the National Association for Women in Catholic Higher Education.

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9780195082418: Am I Thin Enough Yet?: The Cult of Thinness and the Commercialization of Identity

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0195082419 ISBN 13 :  9780195082418
Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 1996
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