"It's like 'Strong is the New Skinny,' but you can't be too strong": Negotiating and decoding the healthy and fit female body online

Research has explored the increasing muscularity of male bodies in popular media, the cultural ideal of masculinity, and its effect on body dissatisfaction in young men, but similar research with young women nearly always focuses on “thinness as the cultural ideal for femininity” (Eisenberg, Wall, &...

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Main Author: Warder, Sarah
Other Authors: McGregor, Catherine
Format: Others
Language:English
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Published: 2018
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Online Access:https://dspace.library.uvic.ca//handle/1828/9209