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Books on: media images of women

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Old Norse Images of Women

Book by Jenny Jochens; University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996

Subjects:

Goddesses, Mythology, Norse, Old Norse Literature--History And Criticism, Women In Literature, Women--Mythology, Women--Scandinavia--History

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Old Norse Images of Women University of Pennsylvania Press...available from the publisher. Old Norse Images of Women Jenny Jochens PENN University...Jochens, Jenny, 1928- Old Norse images of women / Jenny Jochens. p. cm. -- Middle...
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Media Madness: Public Images of Mental Illness

Book by Otto F. Wahl; Rutgers University Press, 1995

Subjects:

Mass Media--United States, Mental Illness In Mass Media

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...of view. I believe that mass media images of mental illness are altogether too...however, that my criticisms of the mass media in no way constitute a blanket indictment...alternative that would enable these women to leave the hospital and return...
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Latin Looks: Images of Latinas and Latinos in the U.S. Media

Book by Clara E. Rodríguez; Westview Press, 1997

Subjects:

Hispanic Americans And Mass Media

Collections: Entire Library

"With depth & perception, Clara Rodriguez sketches the face of a people who have been mostly portrayed in outtakes & as mistakes in celluloid & print." Melita Marie Garza Chicago Tribune "The publication of Latin Looks is a significant event. Finally, someone is paying attention to the diverse & ...
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"With depth & perception, Clara Rodriguez sketches the face of a people who have been mostly portrayed in outtakes & as mistakes in celluloid & print." Melita Marie Garza Chicago Tribune "The publication of Latin Looks is a significant event. Finally, someone is paying attention to the diverse & growing group of Latinos who make up ten percent of the nations population." Afterimage
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America's Teenagers--Myths and Realities: Media Images, Schooling, and the Social Costs of Careless Indifference

Book by Sharon L. Nichols, Thomas L. Good; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004

Subjects:

Mass Media And Teenagers--United States, Teenagers--Services For--United States, Teenagers--United States--Social Conditions

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...In particular, the media provides citizens...negative and stereotyped images of youth. Finally, we...includes real-time images of gun battles and death...sexuality pervade media culture. The swimsuit...more accustomed to women in long skirts and...
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Images of Germany in the American Media

Book by Jim Willis; Praeger Publishers, 1999

Subjects:

Germany--In Mass Media, Mass Media--United States

Collections: Entire Library

The images that most Americans have of Germany are holdovers from World War II and the Holocaust. Yet Germany has been the driving force behind the creation of the European Economic Community and exerts a substantial influence on world trade and currency. It is also the most open country in all of ...
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The images that most Americans have of Germany are holdovers from World War II and the Holocaust. Yet Germany has been the driving force behind the creation of the European Economic Community and exerts a substantial influence on world trade and currency. It is also the most open country in all of Western Europe for foreign immigrants. Willis examines how the American media devises its images of Germany and how accurate they are.
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Journal Articles on: media images of women

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Exposure to Media Images of Female Attractiveness and Concern with Body Weight among Young Women

Journal article by Heidi D. Posavac, Steven S. Posavac, Emil J. Posavac; Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, Vol. 38, 1998

Subjects:

Body weight--Research, Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)--Research, Young women--Attitudes

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...majority of young women may find media images of female attractiveness...find effects of exposure to media images on weight...that expose women to either...a function of condition because media images would not...threatening to these women. EXPERIMENT...
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"From Lady Day to Lady Di: Images of Women in Contemporary Recordings, 1938-1998"

Journal article by B. Lee Cooper; International Journal of Instructional Media, Vol. 26, 1999

Subjects:

Popular music--Social aspects, Women in popular culture--Analysis

Collections: Education, Entire Library

"FROM LADY DAY TO LADY DI: IMAGES OF WOMEN IN CONTEMPORARY RECORDINGS, 1938-1998...various perspectives on the lives of women. Images vary. Sometimes females are portrayed...about the evolution of lyrical images of women in popular songs over the past...
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Extremes of Otherness: Media Images of Social Exclusion

Journal article by Chris Greer, Yvonne Jewkes; Social Justice, Vol. 32, 2005

Subjects:

Crime--Media coverage, Crime--United Kingdom, Media violence--Analysis, Violence in mass media--Analysis

Collections: Entire Library

...Otherness: Media Images of Social Exclusion...reproduced in the media. One of the...men and women, black and...Furthermore, like media narratives...about all women), negative...intimate part of her body...of abusive images of children...teenagers, and women. The British...
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Thin, Sexy Women and Strong, Muscular Men: Grade-School Children's Responses to Objectified Images of Women and Men

Journal article by Sarah K. Murnen, Linda Smolak, J. Andrew Mills, Lindsey Good; Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, Vol. 49, 2003

Subjects:

Body image--Social aspects, Children--Attitudes, Men--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Personal appearance--Social aspects, Women--Portrayals, depictions, etc.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...objectified media images of women is related to...be using the media images to evaluate...developed a style of responding to...pictures of women would be more...link between media consumption of thin images of women and body dissatisfaction...
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Challenge and Conformity on "Contested Terrain": Images of Women in Four Women's Sport/fitness Magazines

Journal article by Marie Hardin, Susan Lynn, Kristie Walsdorf; Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, Vol. 53, 2005

Subjects:

Sex differences (Psychology)--Research, Sex differences (Psychology)--Social aspects, Sexism--Research, Sports magazines--Demographic aspects, Sports magazines--Research, Sports magazines--Social aspects, Women--Portrayals

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...traditional athletic images offered to women before launch of the new titles. Media, Sport, and...proliferation of images of women athletes is...making sports media a contested...stereotyped images of women in sport...Women, media, sport...

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Magazine Articles on: media images of women

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No Model for Girls: Controversy over "Size Zero" Models Is No Longer Confined to the Fashion Industry. There Is Now Solid Evidence That Images of Super-Thin Celebrities in the Media Have a Direct Effect on the Well-Being of Teenagers

Magazine article by Fiona Bawdon; New Statesman, Vol. 136, October 1, 2007

Subjects:

Body weight--Social aspects, Eating disorders--Evaluation, Fashion models--Health aspects, Fashion models--Influence, Fashion models--Social aspects, Personal appearance--Social aspects, Teenage girls--Health aspects, Teenage girls--Social aspects, Teenage girls--Statistics

Collections: Entire Library

...of young women in the fashion...whole body of evidence...fashion and media images directly...magazine images are routinely...removed. Of course, media coverage of skinny women is far from...protect young women from all forms of trauma. Of...disorders, images in the media are the one...
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Raising Our Daughters: Countering the Effects of Today's Negative Images of Young African-American Females

Magazine article by Shirley Henderson; Ebony, Vol. 62, March 2007

Subjects:

African American culture--Forecasts and trends, African American women--Ethical aspects, Race discrimination--Control

Collections: Entire Library

...that degrade women. To offset that...for a number of reasons. For...COMBAT NEGATIVE MEDIA IMAGES Even with a good...home, negative media images can be tough...executive director of Its Cool To Be...negative images of women that he saw on...
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Weapons of Mass Homophobia: For Weeks We Have Been Pummeled with Images of Homosexual Acts Used as a Tactic to Humiliate and Torture Iraqi Prisoners. Such Atrocities, Writes Patrick Moore, Arise Directly from the Vicious Demonization of Gay People in Our Society, from the White House on Down

Magazine article by Patrick Moore; The Advocate, June 8, 2004

Subjects:

Homosexuality--Religious aspects, Muslims--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Prisoners of war--Crimes against, Soldiers--Sexual behavior

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...eyes of their male counterparts and gave the women the pleasure of finally having someone less powerful to victimize...way they themselves may have experienced. Media analysis of the torture images has been stilted, as writers and editors are...
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Swirling Spaces of Stories and Spectators: In Disconnected Images of Bodies, Faces, and Accessories, Argentine Painter Sergio Camporeale Merges the Real and the Fantastic, Challenging Viewers to Create Their Own Interpretation

Magazine article by K. Mitchell Snow; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 55, March 2003

Subjects:

Camporeale, Sergio--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Narrative painting--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Painters, Argentine--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Entire Library

...in disconnected images of bodies, faces, and...story that English women posed nude for a...range of printmaking media, including etching...history of the memory, images of the present and...when the origin of these images is highly personal...
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Loud, Proud and Black: The Bling Generation Should Learn from Images of Unity Dating Back 40 Years, Writes Joseph Harker

Magazine article by Joseph Harker; New Statesman, Vol. 135, October 16, 2006

Subjects:

Blacks--Economic aspects, Blacks--Political aspects, Blacks--Social aspects, Racial violence

Collections: Entire Library

...Bling Generation Should Learn from Images of Unity Dating Back 40 Years, Writes...led a delegation of 24 men and six women to the steps of the state capitol...there was little discussion in the media about black achievement. Suddenly...

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Newspaper Articles on: media images of women

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'Images of Smoking and Drinking Influence the Young'

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), October 14, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...research, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, dismisses the idea that images in advertising and the mass media, including pictures of slim young women, have no influence on those who see them. The study involved 450 secondary school-age...
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Girl Power; Visual Arts Euryl Stevens Produces Images of Figures Combining Painting, Textiles and Stitch Work. Her Latest Collection, as Julie Richards Discovers, Also Features Strong Female Characters

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), February 1, 2008

Subjects:

Artists, Textile industry

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Stevens Produces Images of Figures Combining...non-traditional media that was artistically...that commemorated women in history and...gold. The three women in the foreground...little brazen. One of her pieces gives...emblazoned with images of the devil. In...
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Making Their Way in a Man's World; A New Exhibition Documents the History of Women Working on One of the World's Most Famous Waterfronts

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), April 11, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Liverpool docks and appeals in local media led her to find the 50- plus women who feature on the archive, called Working at the Edge of the World. The recordings will be...Town-born photographer Michelle Sanks images include a barmaid, a tramclippie...
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'I VALUE MYSELF FORMY CREATIVITY -NOT WHAT SIZE I AM'; Today's Perfection-Driven Society Has Produced a Rise in Eating Disorders and a Generation of Women Who Waste Hours Obsessing about Their Body Image. Courtney Martin Tells Jane Gordon Why She Is Urging Them to Stop

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), May 13, 2007

Subjects:

Body image, Children, Eating disorders, Women

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...miles, which I hate but I think is expected of me. And I eat the foods that my body is...she says earnestly. In a world where women can be prime ministers, surgeons and rocket...looks. And although she believes that the media has collectively played a part in her generations...
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Joining Up Images of Life in the Army

Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), September 26, 2006

Subjects:

Soldiers, United Kingdom. Army

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Joining Up Images of Life in the...000 men and women in the Army...Woodward said that media coverage of...society where images are very important...people, the media is the primary source of what life is...the men and women who serve in...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: media images of women

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American Art

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...awareness of stereotypes of African-American women has informed drawings and installations...Holzer in her work has made extensive use of the printed word. No single trend can...photography, collage, and a variety of other media. Also characterizing these decades was...

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