The Body and the Media: healthy eating as female oppression - Symbolic forms of social control over women and patriarchal maintenance

Given the recent and intense media coverage of healthy eating, especially in women's magazines, it is necessary to analyse and contextualise the role that the discourse plays in society, especially in terms of women's performance and aesthetic precepts. This book traces the correlation between eating as a social act and the power relations that are exercised on a daily basis, identifying the effects that discourses on quality of life and women's health have as a means of maintaining the controlling system that ends in patriarchy. The media, then, express a fragment of the macro system in which social culture maintains female subordination by using a variety of resources, including food.

About the author

Ana Luiza è giornalista, correttrice di bozze e ricercatrice in materia di genere e femminismo. Si dedica alle questioni della violenza contro le donne in molteplici sfaccettature, in particolare quelle legate al linguaggio e alla sua interazione con l'apparato sociale.

Product details

• Authors: Ana Luiza Cordeiro
• Publisher: Our Knowledge Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.10.2024
• EAN: 9786208204341
• ISBN: 9786208204341
• No. of pages: 80
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Journalism