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Williams, Tracy Rundstrom.

Empowered Femininity : the Textual Construction of Femininity in Women's Fitness Magazines. - Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2012. - 1 online resource (99 pages)

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.

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 ...

ISBN: 9781443845465 (electronic bk.) 1443845469 (electronic bk.) 1443840785 9781443840781 9781299645530 (MyiLibrary) 1299645534 (MyiLibrary)

Source: 495803 MIL

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: (AMICUS)000041974418

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Femininity.
Women's periodicals--Social aspects.
Physical fitness--Social aspects.--Periodicals
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.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HQ1180 .W384 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 305.420