Media and the rhetoric of body perfection
Perte de poids
Human body, social aspects
Surgery, plastic
Beauty culture
Corps humain
Plastic Surgery
Chirurgie
Body image
Massenmedien
Médias
Physiologie
Cultural
Cultural Policy
Human body
Féminisme
Weight loss
Social psychology
Mass media
Anthropology
Femmes
Public Policy
Popular culture
Aspect social
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Political science
Social aspects
Psychology
Against the background of the so-called 'obesity epidemic', Media and the Rhetoric of Body Perfection critically examines the discourses of physical perfection that pervade Western societies, shedding new light on the rhetorical forces behind body anxieties and extreme methods of weight loss and bea…
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