Young Women and the Body

A Feminist Sociology

By: Liz Dr Frost

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Hardcover | 30 March 2001 | Edition Number 1

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Young Women and the Body sets out to examine why the current generation of young women seem to be deeply unhappy with their own bodies. Dieting and disguising are commonplace, and inflicting serious harm by no means rare in fourteen to eighteen year olds. Despite prophesies to the contrary boys and adults are suffering far less. Drawing on feminist social constructionist perspectives the book seeks to examine this epidemic of body-hatred.

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'An excellent book, refreshing and well written. Creative and compelling, it will prove to be highly popular with students in social science.' - Angela Grier, Leeds Metropolitan University

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Acknowledgements	p. x
Introduction: the Alien Body	p. 1
The concept of body-hatred	p. 1
Aims of the book	p. 2
The body projects	p. 4
The structure of the book	p. 6
What is Body-Hatred?	p. 10
Body-hatred and psychiatric medicine	p. 10
Body dysmorphic disorder	p. 12
Eating disorders	p. 13
Self-harm	p. 19
Psychological approaches to body-hatred	p. 22
Feminist sociological approaches to body-hatred	p. 25
Gender ambivalence: a liberal feminist perspective	p. 27
Body debasement: a radical feminist perspective	p. 28
The capitalist manufacture of bodily discontent: a socialist feminist perspective	p. 29
'Woman' as inferiorised category: a feminist social constructionist perspective	p. 31
Summary	p. 32
The Limits of Self-Reflexivity	p. 34
Identity	p. 35
The body	p. 41
Theorising the female body	p. 47
A note on female embodiment	p. 52
Theorising youth	p. 54
Young, female and self-hating?	p. 57
Summary	p. 58
Adolescence and Body-Hatred	p. 60
Age difference and social difference	p. 61
Historical constructions of adolescence	p. 63
Present-day young people as adolescents	p. 66
The problematisation of adolescence	p. 67
Adolescent girls	p. 69
Girls and their bodies	p. 71
Girls and physical changes: menstruation and breasts	p. 72
The construction of womanly appearance	p. 75
Vanity and self-appreciation	p. 77
Summary	p. 80
Teenage Consumers and Body-Hatred	p. 82
A consuming society	p. 83
Consumption and the visual	p. 84
Teenagers, teen-culture and consumption	p. 86
Young women and the process of consumption	p. 89
Young women and the products of consumption	p. 92
Gender and teenage leisure	p. 93
Girls as viewers and readers	p. 95
Teenagers and friendship groups	p. 100
Close friends and 'bedroom culture'	p. 102
Summary	p. 106
Sexuality and Body-Hatred	p. 108
Introduction	p. 108
The sexualisation of girls	p. 110
School and the sexualisation of girls	p. 111
Going out with boys	p. 116
Young women, sexuality and being 'bad'	p. 122
Young women, sexuality and the family	p. 126
Summary	p. 130
Young Women's Experience of Body-Hatred: Stigma and Shame	p. 131
Stigma	p. 132
Shame	p. 136
Stigma and the female body	p. 136
Shame and the female body	p. 139
Conversations with teenagers	p. 141
The interview and questionnaire material	p. 143
Young women speak	p. 143
Moving closer to girls: two case-studies	p. 154
Summary	p. 168
Young Men and Body-Hatred	p. 170
Boys as consumers	p. 171
Young men and images	p. 174
Boys and the masculine body	p. 176
Class, labour and the masculine body	p. 177
Sport and the masculine body	p. 178
Black youth and the masculine body	p. 180
Young men and homophobia	p. 183
Gay guys and the 'butch shift'	p. 183
Being 'a girl': the worst insult	p. 186
Boys and relationships with girls	p. 189
Different for boys? Some final thoughts	p. 191
Summary	p. 192
Young Women and the Body: Some Conclusions	p. 194
Girls and the bodies they inhabit	p. 194
The beauty imperative	p. 195
The thin imperative	p. 196
Issues of sexuality	p. 197
Summary	p. 198
Bibliography	p. 199
Index	p. 209
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