Textual Construction of the Female Body : A Critical Discourse Approach /

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 re...

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Main Author:	Jeffries, Lesley (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Subjects:	Linguistics. Cultural and Media Studies, general. Discourse Analysis. Gender Studies. Culture > Study and teaching. Discourse analysis. Gender expression. Gender identity. Sex (Psychology) Sociology. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book