Becoming Women : The Embodied Self in Image Culture / Carla Rice.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rice, Carla, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Body image in women--Social aspects.

Body image in women.

Body image in girls--Social aspects.

Body image in girls.

Beauty, Personal--Social aspects.

Beauty, Personal.

Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)--Social aspects.

Feminine beauty (Aesthetics).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (407 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In a culture where beauty is currency, women's bodies are often perceived as measures of value and worth. The search for visibility and self-acceptance can be daunting, especially for those on the cultural margins of "beauty."Becoming Women offers a thoughtful examination of the search for identity in an image-oriented world. That search is told through the experiences of a group of women who came of age in the wake of second and third wave feminism, featuring voices from marginalized and misrepresented groups. Carla Rice pairs popular imagery with personal narratives to expose the "culture of contradiction" where increases in individual body acceptance have been matched by even more restrictive feminine image ideals and norms. With insider insights from the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty, Rice exposes the beauty industry's colonization of women's bodies, and examines why "the beauty myth" has yet to be resolved

Contents:

Introduction: searching for identity in image culture

In the shadow of difference

In a girl's body

Invisible in full view

The student body

Puberty as sexual spectacle

A body that looks, and feels, like a woman

In the mirror of beauty culture

Conclusion : out of the shadows.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Okt 2018)

ISBN:

1-4426-8540-9

1-4426-6826-1

OCLC:

872601423