TY  - BOOK
AU  - Williams,Tracy Rundstrom
TI  - Empowered Femininity: the Textual Construction of Femininity in Women's Fitness Magazines
SN  - 9781443845465
AV  - HQ1180 .W384 2012 
U1  - 305.420 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Newcastle upon Tyne
PB  - Cambridge Scholars Pub.
KW  - Femininity
KW  - Women's periodicals
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Physical fitness
KW  - Periodicals
KW  - Femininity in popular culture
KW  - Women in popular culture
KW  - Human body in popular culture
KW  - Féminité
KW  - Presse féminine
KW  - Aspect social
KW  - Féminité dans la culture populaire
KW  - Femmes dans la culture populaire
KW  - Corps humain dans la culture populaire
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Feminism & Feminist Theory
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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