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Beautiful Ideal:Analysis Body Constructions In Women Losing Weight From Mass Media

Posted on:2015-03-27Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X Y SheFull Text:PDF
GTID:2298330431469174Subject:Communication
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With the development of modern society, people enjoy a richer material at the same time, be given wider freedom and consciousness. For the body, is no exception. Both in academic circles and daily life, people show great passion in it, women are in the prominent. Due to the consumption community and mass media, female body always have been seen as a method which is constantly changing and improving, there are more and more women lose weight in order to beautiful body. Probably this is not fresh, but now is not a passing and regional fashion, and turn into a typical social phenomenon in popular at home and abroad.The article choose the weight reducing phenomena of women as the research subject, and in order to definitude the influence cause by mass media in ladies body sense and body behavior by use body as clue. The article thinks, modernity is a two-edged sword:the multiple choice of our body in modern society is only look beautiful, women in a new imprisonment without freedom. Body’s development have always been constrained by and influenced for the social and cultural. Therefore, the other parts are listed as following:Fist part of artificial is the development of the body aesthetics and weight reducing behavior. And it is important to declare the reason why the weight reducing phenomena of women turn into a typical social phenomenon. The second part is analysis in the modern society which is characterized by the influence of media, the mass media formulate The Ideal Body, a common aesthetical standard, take advantage of its influence in daily life and the social culture. The third part is explain that the malelism and consumer society are the hidden factors make women become objectification and materialization.The last part is introspection and conclusion. Losing weight is women s choice,but the choice which conduct women are the social norms. The choice misled women and turn into a new bondage for women.
Keywords/Search Tags:Body, The mass media, Feminist, Consumerism
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