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Web Sites in Category Media Pressures
About-Face: Facts on the Media - Offers statistics about how images and messages in the mass media affect women's self-image and self-acceptance.
Fear of Fat: Why Images of Overweight Women Are Taboo - Article by Laura Fraser on why the media will not use images of overweight women.
Mediascope Issue Briefs - Body Image and Advertising - Overview of advertising's influence on body image, especially in young girls.
Stop The Object - Site is about images of beauty and sex objects in the media that hurt body image for women and men alike. Information about body image disorders.
The Focus on Beauty - This site examines the depiction of female beauty in the media. The intent is to demonstrate how the media negatively impacts women's views of themselves, often leading to low self-esteem and other problems.
What Is Victoria's Secret - Parody site criticizing the idealized images of the female body in Victoria's Secret advertising.
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