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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jennifer Nelson |
| ISBN: | 9781580054133 1580054137 |
| OCLC Number: | 784708338 |
| Description: | xiii, 267 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Contents: | A chick-slick history -- The pink ghetto -- Truth in advertising -- Fashion forward -- It ain't about inner beauty -- To age or not to age -- The feminine fear factor -- To the left -- The big O -- Celebrity central. |
| Responsibility: | by Jennifer Nelson. |
Abstract:
Examines the women's magazine business, wonders how it is thriving amid the failing print journalism industry, and asks if the unrealistic body image it portrays is intentional or not.
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- Women's periodicals, American.
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- Women's periodicals, American -- Illustrations -- Themes, motives.
- Women in mass media.
- Body image in women -- Social aspects -- United States.
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