Beauty & Body Image In The Media

This is a site about beauty representations and body images within the media and a broader view on how it causes anorexia with its unrealistic models ect ect...

while this artical is about film, magazine covers, models and advertising, im only going to be focusing on the advertising part for my project but feel free to read the rest... its a very interesting article about the sterotypes of women in the media.

"Why are standards of beauty being imposed on women, the majority of whom are naturally larger and more mature than any of the models? The roots, some analysts say, are economic. By presenting an ideal difficult to achieve and maintain, the cosmetic and diet product industries are assured of growth and profits. And it’s no accident that youth is increasingly promoted, along with thinness, as an essential criterion of beauty. If not all women need to lose weight, for sure they’re all aging, says the Quebec Action Network for Women’s Health in its 2001 report Changements sociaux en faveur de la diversité des images corporelles. And, according to the industry, age is a disaster that needs to be dealt with."