Textual Construction of the Female Body

Textual Construction of the Female Body
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Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages : 240
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ISBN-10 : 033391452X
ISBN-13 : 9780333914526
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Book Synopsis Textual Construction of the Female Body by : Lesley Jeffries

Download or read book Textual Construction of the Female Body written by Lesley Jeffries and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-10-27 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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