Empowered Femininity : the Textual Construction of Femininity in Women's Fitness Magazines.

By:

Williams, Tracy Rundstrom

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2012.Description: 1 online resource (99 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781443845465
1443845469
1443840785
9781443840781
9781299645530
1299645534

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Empowered Femininity : The Textual Construction of Femininity in Women's Fitness Magazines.DDC classification:

305.420

LOC classification:

HQ1180 .W384 2012

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Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF TABLES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.

Summary: 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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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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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.

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