Empowered Femininity : the Textual Construction of Femininity in Women's Fitness Magazines.
Material type: TextPublication details: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2012.Description: 1 online resource (99 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781443845465
- 1443845469
- 1443840785
- 9781443840781
- 9781299645530
- 1299645534
- Femininity
- Women's periodicals -- Social aspects
- Physical fitness -- Periodicals -- Social aspects
- Femininity in popular culture
- Women in popular culture
- Human body in popular culture
- Féminité
- Presse féminine -- Aspect social
- Féminité dans la culture populaire
- Femmes dans la culture populaire
- Corps humain dans la culture populaire
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Feminism & Feminist Theory
- Femininity
- Femininity in popular culture
- Human body in popular culture
- Physical fitness
- Women in popular culture
- 305.420
- HQ1180 .W384 2012
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Women in the first decades of the 21st century encounter competing ideologies of femininity. This book traces the existence of two such ideologies - traditional femininity and resistant femininity - in language, in women's magazines, and in relation to the body. The book then uses a Discourse Analysis of women's fitness magazines to investigate how these ideologies, or discourses, are encoded and ultimately merged into a single discourse of femininity. The extremely thin female body encodes ...
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 77-86) and index.
TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF TABLES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.
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