Textual Construction of the Female Body: A Critical Discourse Approach

By Lesley Jeffries

Book Overview

This volume takes a critical discourse approach to the ways women's magazines contribute to the social construction of particular kinds of female body - as ideal, beautiful, ugly, overweight or engineered. Looking at the language used, it provides an insight into the experience of the female reader, and the likely impact upon her self-image.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349423068
• ISBN13: 9781349423064
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"