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Textual Construction of the Female Body: A Critical Discourse Approach

By Lesley Jeffries

Book information

Year
2007
ISBN
0333914511, 9780333914519, 9780230593626
Open Library ID
OL10558073M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
858 kB (878464 bytes)
Edition
1st
Pages
230\227
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This volume takes a critical discourse approach to the ways in which texts from women's magazines contribute to the social construction of particular kinds of female body - as ideal, beautiful, ugly, overweight or engineered. By looking at a wide range of texts and studying the language used to describe female forms, Lesley Jeffries provides an insight into the experience of the female reader of such texts, and the likely impact upon her own self-image.

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