Library Pathfinder
Home Economics
Year 11
Textile Assignment
Body image, media and the fashion
industry
Book Resources
Search for the subject body image
through the OPAC terminals
Some suitable Dewey nos are in 155.2 or 155.5
Decades of beauty: the changing
image of women in 391 MUL
More resources can be found under 613 and 616.8
Issues in society series “Body
Image” in 616.8BOD is a good resource
Newspaper
and Magazine Articles
Electric Library
a journal and newspaper database
The password can be obtained from the library staff
or from the database brochure at the circulation desk in the library
World
Wide Web Resources
Beauty and Body image in the media
Women—and their body parts—sell everything from food to cars
http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/issues/stereotyping/women_and_girls/women_beauty.cfm
Love Your Body Day. Fact Sheets, Examples of
offensive and acceptable ads.
Hollywood and the fashion, cosmetics and diet industries work hard
to make each of us believe that our bodies are unacceptable and need constant
improvement.
http://loveyourbody.nowfoundation.org/index.html
Television and the
female body. There is a trend towards an increasingly thinner
stereotype of the female body on television.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2294/is_5-6_40/ai_55082333
Beauty and the beast of
advertising
Most teenagers are sensitive to peer pressure and
find it difficult to resist or even question the dominant cultural messages
perpetuated and reinforced by the media.
http://www.medialit.org/reading_room/article40.html
The Media, Body Image and Eating
Some Basic Facts About the
Media’s Influence in Our Lives
http://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/p.asp?WebPage_ID=286&Profile_ID=41166
Media’s effect on girls
The popular media (television, movies,
magazines, etc.) have, since World War II, increasingly held up a thinner and
thinner body (and now ever more physically fit) image as the ideal for women
http://www.mediafamily.org/facts/facts_mediaeffect.shtml
Completely gorgeous. Fashion Victims
Almost every fashion magazine retouches
photographs of girls
http://www.completelygorgeous.com.au/home.html
Extremely Perfect
A former supermodel and
film actress lament the focus on the demand for perfection in women.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/04/28/48hours/main551362.shtml
Media on the Mind
Link to the Shocking
facts
option.
Some statistics related to diet
and body image.
A summary of research findings
on body image including the influence of the media.
http://www.sirc.org/publik/mirror.html
The Media’s effect
25 years ago the average model weighed
8% less than the average American woman. Currently, the average model weighs
23% less than the average American woman.
http://www.johnriviello.com/bodyimage/media.html
Soaps, Music Videos linked to
Teens’ body image
http://www.lifeclinic.com/healthnews/article_view.asp?story=526142
Study finds body image affects
perception of others
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2006/08/14/1714814.htm
Interview with Imogen Bailey - focussing
on the positives not the negatives when it comes to your body.
http://www.reachout.com.au/default.asp?ti=2750
What is Body Image?
We are more vulnerable to media
messages when our self esteem and body image is low.
http://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/p.asp?WebPage_ID=286&Profile_ID=41157
Body Image. How to love the skin
you’re in
http://www.reachout.com.au/default.asp?ti=2527
Parent
and Peer Pressure Influences
Relationship between the female
body and the mass media
An increasing incidence
of body dissatisfaction and eating disorders has coincided with changes in
sociocultural norms for females over the last few decades.
These messages about the ideal female form are transmitted by a
variety of means, including the family, peers and by the mass media
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~bihinc/Documents/RS-effect%20of%20media%20-%20update.doc
The influences of the parents on
body image, eating attitudes and behaviours
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~bihinc/Documents/RS%20Influence%20of%20%20Parents%20-%20update.doc
Body Image and tips for parents
http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/bhcv2/bhcarticles.nsf/pages/Body_image_tips_for_parents?open
Keep your children out of the
firing line, body image problems eating disorders and media messages
http://www.youngmedia.org.au/pdf/fact_sheets/03_10_TT_body_image.pdf
Parents can help teens keep
healthy body image
http://archives.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/children/06/09/body.image.wmd
Body fat comments by teachers, parents and role models
http://www.bodypositive.com/message/_disc1/0000000f.htm
Girl’s and body image. Parent
influence
http://family.samhsa.gov/be/gnb_image.aspx
Body Image and Health
The way a person
perceives, feels about, and treats their body influences many lifestyle choices
and health-related behaviours.
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~bihinc/Documents/Research%20Summary%20BI%20&%20health.doc
Children and Body
image.
Look for the chapter: Factors influencing body image
One of the factors
which has been shown to predict body dissatisfaction and poorer body image
among children is a history of teasing by other children
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~bihinc/Documents/RS%20children%20update.doc
Body Image. Ed
Referral. Com. Look for the chapters beginning with
http://www.edreferral.com/body_image.htm#body%20image,%20your%20body,%20your%20self
Body image and women’s oppression
http://www.greenleft.org.au/2001/445/26247
The Psychology of Ideal Body Image
as an Oppressive Force in the Lives of Women
http://www.healingthehumanspirit.com/pages/body_img4.htm
Beauty and body image in the media
http://dawn.thot.net/beauty_and_body_image.html
Do thin models warp girls’ body image?
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2006-09-25-thin-models_x.htm
The influence of fashion magazines on the body image
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2248/is_n127_v32/ai_20413253
Body shape ideals in magazines
Social endorsements of an ideal body shape, such as those
found in print and film media formats, have been related to body image
disturbance
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2294/is_n9-10_v37/ai_20608868/print
Notions of the ideal
body are linked with the economy.
http://www.johnriviello.com/bodyimage/diet.html
The
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2725943.stm
Fears Fat pill being marketed to teens
Plastic
Surgery
Body Image. A pep talk
The pressure to be perfect is so great that it is destroying the
self esteem of an entire generation
A good paragraph on
plastic surgery
http://teenadvice.about.com/library/weekly/aa060300a.htm
Plastic Surgery. Why do teens get
plastic surgery?
http://www.kidshealth.org/teen/your_mind/body_image/plastic_surgery.html
Psychological aspects: Your self image
and plastic surgery
http://www.plasticsurgery.org/patients_consumers/planning_surgery/psychological_aspects.cfm
Plastic Surgery. Beauty
of beast?
http://www.apa.org/monitor/sep05/surgery.html
Teenagers and cosmetic surgery
http://www.ourbodiesourselves.org/book/companion.asp?id=1&compID=102
Seeing gorgeous models hurts your body
image
A primary quick-fix solution is plastic surgery, which has risen
dramatically since 1992.
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art31822.asp
Campaign for Real Beauty
http://www.campaignforrealbeauty.com
Fickle Face of Fashion
http://www.women.tas.gov.au/awake/fickle.html
Brand Warriors versus the grey Marketeers
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/bbing/stories/s19076.htm