The Media and Body Image: If Looks Could Kill

by Maggie Wykes, Barrie Gunter

The Media and Body Image draws together literature from sociology, gender studies, and psychology; brings together new empirical work on both media representations and audience responses; and offers a broad discussion of this topic in the context of socio-cultural change, gender politics, and self-identity.

Genres: Psychology, Gender, Sociology, Nonfiction, Feminism

256 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004