| Description |
xiii, 176 pages : portraits ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Careers to die for -- Cutting edge -- Losing game -- Big screens, small bodies -- Periodical pains -- Good sports, babes and beauty queens |
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Introduction: The shape wére in -- Supermodels: A career to die for -- Cosmetic surgery: Cutting edge -- Diet industry: The losing game -- Television/movies: Big screens, small bodies -- Cosmetics/magazine industry: Periodical pains -- Sport: Good sports, babes and beauty queens |
| Summary |
"Disturbing and well-documented dossier on how the media is making women sick - literally - by promoting unhealthy, unrealistic and unattainable images of how we should look." - cover |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Body image in women.
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Mass media.
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Popular culture.
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Women in mass media.
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Self-esteem in women.
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Women in popular culture.
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Women -- Health and hygiene.
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Women.
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| Author |
Tebbel, Cyndi.
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| LC no. |
2001320449 |
| ISBN |
1876451076 (paperback) |
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