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Title:
Slim hopes [videorecording] / a production of the Media Education Foundation.
Format:
[videorecording] /
Publisher:
The Foundation,
Copyright Date:
c2002
Description:
1 videodisc (30 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Subject:
Women in advertising.
Advertising--Psychological aspects.
Leanness--Social aspects.
Leanness--Psychological aspects.
Body image in women--Social aspects.
Body image in women--Psychological aspects.
Eating disorders--Social aspects.
Other Authors:
Kilbourne, Jean.
Jhally, Sut.
Media Education Foundation.
Notes:
Title from container. Originally produced in 1995.
Contents:
Impossible beauty -- The waif look -- Constructed bodies -- Food & sex -- Food & control -- The weight loss industry -- Freeing imaginations.
Summary:
Uses examples of over 120 ads from magazines and T.V. to explores the manner in which women are portrayed in advertising that focuses on thinness. Discusses the impact these portrayals have on the self images of women and girls and their relationship to life-threatening eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia.
ISBN:
9781893521605
1893521605
Locations:
PNAX964 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Calmar (Calmar)
UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)
IBAX173 -- North Iowa Area Community College Library (Mason City)

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