One Size Does Not Fit All
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One Size Does Not Fit All

Undressing the Performance of Bodies in Popular Culture

  1. 325 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

One Size Does Not Fit All

Undressing the Performance of Bodies in Popular Culture

About this book

This edited collection explores the malleability and influence of body image, focusing particularly on how media representation and popular culture's focus on the body exacerbates the crucial social influence these representations can have on audiences' perceptions of themselves and others. Contributors investigate the cultural context and lived experiences of individuals' relationships with their bodies, going beyond examination of the thin, ideal body type to explore the emerging representations and portrayals of a diverse set of body types across the media spectrum, paving the way for future research on this topic. Scholars of media studies, popular culture, and health communication will find this book particularly useful.

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Yes, you can access One Size Does Not Fit All by Sarah S. LeBlanc,K. Megan Hopper in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Communication Studies. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Preface
  9. Chapter 1: Introduction
  10. Part I: Lizzo
  11. Chapter 2: Auntie Sam Rocks the Vote! The Embodied Politics of Lizzo in the 2020 U.S. Election
  12. Chapter 3: Feelin’ Good as Hell?: The Influence of Cardi B. and Lizzo’s Music Videos on College-Aged Women’s Perceptions of Beauty, Sexism, and Sexualization
  13. Part II: Social Media
  14. Chapter 4: “This is the Kind of Influencer We Want to See!”: A Study of Body Representation among Instagram Influencers
  15. Chapter 5: Accidental Culture Jamming: Celeste Barber and the Juxtaposition between the Real and Ideal Body
  16. Chapter 6: Keeping Up with the Yummy Mummies?: Examining Kim Kardashian’s Mediated Yummy Mummy Images on the Reality Television Program Keeping Up with The Kardashians versus Instagram Posts
  17. Chapter 7: (Re)Presentations: Personal Narratives and the Posthuman Body in the #MeToo Movement
  18. Chapter 8: “He’s dragged me here so I can understand”: Race, Gender, and the Performance of Painted Bodies in MTV’s Drag My Dad
  19. Part III: Television
  20. Chapter 9: “There’s a lot of inches to love”: Expectancy Violations, Fat Identity, Weight Stigma, and Relational Turmoil in TLC’s Hot and Heavy
  21. Chapter 10: “Body-ody-ody-ody-ody-ody-ody-ody”: Interrogating Black Bodies in Cable Television
  22. Chapter 11: The One with All the Fat-Shaming: An Examination of Anti-Fat Bias on Friends
  23. Chapter 12: Where Power Resides: An Analysis of Female Bodies in Game of Thrones
  24. Part IV: Advertising
  25. Chapter 13: “Anti-Racist X-rays?”: Color-Blind Racism and the “Universal” Body
  26. Chapter 14: #Realbodies: Exploring the Impact of Women Empowerment Advertisements
  27. Chapter 15: Eat French Fries and Be Healthy: The Fit Body as a Means of Promoting Fast Food
  28. Chapter 16: Ideal-Body Media and Gay Men’s Self-Discrepancy
  29. Index
  30. About the Contributors