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Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Haunted Bodies
T2 - Visual Cultures of Anorexia
AU - Ferreday, Debra
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Thin bodies have been the centre of much controversy in recent years. Feminist critiques of popular culture, as well as popular feminist movements, have called attention to the ways in which oppressive ideals of feminine beauty have increasingly become associated with an idealisation of extreme thinness. In particular, the extent to which the prevalence of eating disorders can be linked to media representations of very thin (‘size zero’) models and celebrities has been the subject of much discussion. This article explores the relationship between bodies, images and cultural representations of thinness across a range of media sites including political campaigns, commercial television, celebrity magazines, catwalk and high street fashion, and digital cultures, exploring how anorexic and size-zero bodies are gendered, racialised and pathologised in contemporary media cultures.
AB - Thin bodies have been the centre of much controversy in recent years. Feminist critiques of popular culture, as well as popular feminist movements, have called attention to the ways in which oppressive ideals of feminine beauty have increasingly become associated with an idealisation of extreme thinness. In particular, the extent to which the prevalence of eating disorders can be linked to media representations of very thin (‘size zero’) models and celebrities has been the subject of much discussion. This article explores the relationship between bodies, images and cultural representations of thinness across a range of media sites including political campaigns, commercial television, celebrity magazines, catwalk and high street fashion, and digital cultures, exploring how anorexic and size-zero bodies are gendered, racialised and pathologised in contemporary media cultures.
KW - anorexia
KW - size zero
KW - media
KW - celebrity
KW - beauty
KW - pro-ana
KW - visual cultures
KW - feminist theory
M3 - Journal article
VL - 10
JO - Borderlands e-Journal : New Spaces in the Humanities
JF - Borderlands e-Journal : New Spaces in the Humanities
SN - 1447-0810
IS - 2
M1 - 7
ER -