Textual Construction of the Female Body

A Critical Discourse Approach

• Author(s): L. Jeffries,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 212
• ISBN_10: 0230593623
  ISBN_13: 9780230593626
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Pragmatics , Social Science / Gender Studies , Social Science / General , Social Science / Sociology / General , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social ,

Description:... 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.