Body Image, How Does the Media Represent the Body?

Body Sales: How is the Body Seen as a Commodity?

Body Refigured: the Beauty Business

Body Exploited: Prostitution & Trafficking

--Sex Work/Prostitution

--Sex Trafficking/Global Slavery

Looking Further into the Mirror

Body Image, How Does the Media Represent the Body?

" The Female Body has many uses...It sells cars, beer, shaving lotion, cigarettes,

hard liquor....Is this the face that launched a thousand products? You bet it is, but don't

get any big ideas ,honey, that smile is a dime a dozen."

---The Female Body by Margaret Atwood in Minding the Body: Women Writers on Body and Soul p.91

Books & Videos

Berg, Frances. M. Women Afraid to Eat : Breaking Free in Today's Weight-Obsessed World. Hettinger, ND : Healthy Weight Network, c2000. Call No. RC552 .O25 B47 2000@ Lemieux Library.

Body: The Value of Women. Forward in Time-Parallel Lines, 2005 [ON ORDER@Lemieux Library]

The Famine within [videorecording]. Santa Monica, CA : Direct Cinema Limited, 1990. Call No. BF697.5 B63 F36 @ Lemieux Library.

Documents the contemporary obsession with an unrealistic body size and shape among North American women and the eating disorders it engenders.

Friedan, Betty. The Feminine Mystique. New York: Norton and London, 1963 Call No. HQ1420 F7 1963@Lemieux Library. This early work on the effect of advertising was the impetus for much of the subsequent research in the field.

Goffman, Erving. Gender Advertisements. London, 1979 Call No. HF 5827 G57 1979 @ Lemieux Library. Classic analysis of visual imagery in advertisements.

Kilbourne, Jill. Deadly Persuasion, Why Women and Girls Must Fight the Addictive Power of Advertising. Free Press, 1999 Call No. HF 5823 K363 1999@ Lemieux Library.

Killing Us Softly [video]: Advertising's Image of Women. Cambridge: Cambridge Documentary Films, 2000. Call No. HF5827.85 .K55 2000 @ Lemieux Library.

"Explores the image of women presented by modern advertising. Illustrates with examples the use of women as sex objects and the exploitation of children."

Macdonald, Myra. Representing Women: Myths of Feminity in the Popular Media. London, 1995. Call No. P94.5 W65M31995@Lemieux Library.

Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women. Routledge: New York, 2000. Ref Call No. HQ 1115 R69 2000@ Lemieux Library. See especially chapters on Images of Women (by region) for essays on geographic media representations of women.

Schrum, Kelly. Some Wore Bobby Sox, the Emergence of Teenage Girls' Culture, 1920-1945. New York: Palgrave, 2004. Call No. HQ 798 S328 2004@Lemieux Library.

Sexual Stereotypes in the Media [video] Monmouth, N.J.:Cambridge Educational, 2001. Call No. P96.S5 S49 2001@Lemieux Library.

Slaying the Dragon [videorecording] / produced and directed by Deborah Gee ; executive producer, Asian Women United. San Francisco, CA : Cross Current Media : NAATA, c1988. Call No. PN 1995.9 A78 S53 1988@ Lemieux Library.

"Describes and discusses Asians and Asian-Americans as depicted in American Media productions, including films, television programs, commercials, newsreels and news broadcasts, paying particular attention to Asian women. Includes interviews with Asian historians, sociologists, actors & actresses and broadcasters."

Still Killing Us Softly: [video] Advertising's Image of Women. Cambridge: Cambridge Documentary Film. 1987 Call No. HF5827.85.S75 1987 @ Lemieux Library.

"Discusses the manner in which women continue to be portrayed by advertising and the effects this has on women, men, and children and their images of themselves."

Tough Guise [videorecording]: Violence, Media and the Crisis in Masculinity. Northampton, MA: Media Education Foundation, c1999. Call No. BF697.5 B63 B49 2000@ Lemieux Library.

"Presents the first program to look systematically at the relationship between the images of popular culture and the social construction of masculine identities in the US in the late 20th century. In this innovative and wide-ranging analysis, Jackson Katz argues that there is a crisis in masculinity and that some of the guises offered to men a solution (rugged individualism, violence) come loaded with attendant dangers to women, as well as to other men.".

Wolf, Naomi. The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are used against Women. London, Chatto and Windus, 1990: Morrow, 1991. Call No. HQ 1211 W65 1991@ Lemieux Library.

 

Websites

About-Face. "About-Face promotes positive self-esteem in girls and women of all ages, sizes, races and backgrounds through a spirited approach to media education, outreach and activism." The site includes examples of current images of women in advertisements. Check its "Gallery of Winners," and "Gallery of Losers."

Body Image and Advertising . 2000. Issue Briefs. Studio City, Calif.: Mediascope Press. One of a series of issue briefs published by the nonprofit

Body Image and Nutrition. This is one section from the online series " Teen Health and the Media" co-sponsored by the Washington Department of Health and the University of Washington College of Education's Teen Futures Media Network. Focused on teens and preteens, there are links to current news articles, as well as to other links and resources

Pretty Unreal. Current Health2, January 2005. <http://medialit.med.sc.edu/pretty_unreal.htm>

Body Sales: How is the Body Seen as a Commodity?

"Our body loves us, and even while the spirit is dreaming away, it is working to remedy the damage that we do to it. " --John Updike

BODY REFIGURED: the BEAUTY BUSINESS

Books & Videos

Banet-Wiser, Sarah. The Most Beautiful Girl in the World : Beauty Pageants and National identity Berkeley : University of California Press, c1999. Call No. HQ 1220 U5 B36 1999 @ Lemieux Library.

Craig, Maxine Leeds. Ain't I a Beauty Queen? : Black Women, Beauty, and the Politics of Race Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002. Call No. HQ 1220 U5 C73 2002 @ Lemieux Library.

Fraser, Laura. Losing It : America's Obsession with Weight and the Industry that Feeds on It. New York : Dutton, c1997.[ON ORDER @ Lemieux Library].

Gross, Michael. Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women. New York: Morrow [ON ORDER@ Lemieux Library.

Moynihan, Roy. Selling sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies are Turning Us All into Patients. Thunder Mouth Press, 2005. [ON ORDER @ Lemieux Library].

Poulton, Terry. No Fat Chicks : How Big Business Profits by Making Women Hate Their Bodies--and How to Fight Back. Secaucus, N.J. : Carol Pub. Group, c1997. Call No. RM 222.2 P67 1997 @Lemieux Library.

Riordan, Theresa. Inventing Beauty : a History of the Innovations that have made us Beautiful. New York : Broadway Books, 2004. Call No. GT 499 R56 2004 @ Lemieux Library.

Sullivan, Deborah H. Cosmetic Surgery : the Cutting edge of Commercial Medicine in America. New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press , c2001. Call No. RD 119 S85 2001 @ Lemieux Library.

Blum, Virginia. Flesh Wounds : the Culture of Cosmetic Surgery. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003. Call No. RD199 B53 2003 @ Lemieux Library.

Websites

Beauty Pageants: The Cost of Fame. Council of Better Business Bureaus. Guidelines for evaluating beauty pageant promotions.

"China to hold fake beauty pageants."BBC News, August 4, 2004.<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3533680.stm.> Article on pageant with contestants who have had cosmetic surgery.

Fraser, Laura. "The Hard Body Sell," Mother Jones Mar/Apr 1999. <http://www.motherjones.com/news/outfront/1999/03/fraser.html>

"The Beauty Business: Pots of Promise."Special edition (from the print edition). Economist.com. May 22, 2003 <http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=1795852>

Fadden, Robyn. "On the Cutting Edge: Plastic Surgery, Fashion and Change in Popular Culture." Journal for the Arts, Sciences and Technology, vol. 02-No 2, 2004. <http:://www.grconsortium.org/pdf/V.2-2PDF/v22_fadden.pdf>. Online paper from Graduate Research Consortium.

Mitchell, Deborah. Permanent makeup: beauty or the beast? Emory Facial & Aesthetics Center. Emory University Hospital. Higlights non-fashion reasons for permanent makeup.

More Americans Seeking Cosmetic Surgery: 22 Percent Increase in Procedures in 2004. AAFRS Statistics on Facial Plastic Survey. American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.

Pageantry Magazine Online!

U.S. GAO. Dietary Supplements for Weight Loss: Limited Federal Oversight has Focused More on Marketing than on Safety. July 31, 2002.

U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation. Testimony of Mr. Howard Beales (Director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection, Federal Trade Commission) on Dietary Supplements, Oct.28,2003.

BODY EXPLOITED: PROSTITUTION, & TRAFFICKING

"He said come

Let me exploit you;

Somebody must do it

And wouldn't you prefer a brother."

---He Said Come by Alice Walker in Her Blue Body Everything We Know

Books &Videos

Sex Work/Prostitution

Brock, Rita Nakashima and Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite. Casting Stones : Prostitution and Liberation in Asia and the United States. Minneapolis : Fortress Press, c1996. Call No. HQ 231.85 A5 B76 1996@Lemieux Library.

Chapkis, (W) Wendy. Live Sex Acts : Women Performing Erotic Labor. New York : Routledge, 1997. Call No. HQ 115 C43 1997@Lemieux Library.

Goldman, Emma. The Traffic in Women and Other Essays on Feminism. New York: Times Change Press, 1970. Call No. HQ 1426 B64 1971 @ Lemieux Library.

Kempadoo, Kamala. Global Sex Workers: Rights Resistance and Redefinition. New York: Routledge, 1998. Call No. HQ 111 G56 1998@ Lemieux Library.

Sanger, William. History of Prostitution. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1858. Call No. HQ1111 S22 1972@ Lemieux Library.

Sycamore, Matt Bernstein (ed.) Tricks and Treats : Sex Workers Write about their Clients. New York; London : Harrington Park, 2000. Call No. HQ 117 T75 2000 @Lemieux Library.

Walkowitz, Judith R. Prostitution and Victiorian Society: Women, Class and the State. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1980. Call No. HQ 185 A5 W34 1982 @ Lemieux Library.

Websites

Bindman, Jo, Anti-Slavery International. With participation of Jo Doezma, Network of Sex Work Projects. ©1997. Redefining Prositution as Sex Work on the International Agenda.

International Labour Organization. The Sex Sector: The economic and social bases of prostitution in Southeast Asia (1998) Available through the ELDIS Development Gateway.

Network of Sex Worker Projects.

Prostituion Research & Education Network. "Prostitution Research & Education (PRE) is sponsored by the San Francisco Women's Centers, a nonprofit corporation. PRE develops research and educational programs to document the experiences of people in prostitution."

U.S. Dept of State.Bureau of Public Affairs.The Link Between Prostitution and Sex Trafficking. Nov. 24, 2004

Sex Trafficking/Global Slavery

Books & Videos

Bruno, Ellen Sacrifice [video] Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey, Film Library, 1998. Call No. HQ 232.7 A5 S22 1998 @ Lemieux Library.

Each year thousands of girls are recruited from rural Burmese villages to work in brothels in Thailand where they are held for years in debt bondage. The trafficking of Burmese girls is a direct result of political repression in Burma. Human rights abuses, war, and ethnic discrimination have displaced thousands of families leaving them dwith no means of livelihood. This film, through interviews with the girls, examines the social, cultural and economic forces at work in the trafficking of these Burmese girls.

Chapkis, W. (Wendy) Live Sex Acts: Women Performing Erotic Labor. New York : Routledge, 1997. Call No. HQ115 .C43 1997@ Lemieux Library.

Flowers, Ronald. B. Runaway Kids and Teenage Prostitution: America's Lost, Abandoned, and Sexually Exploited Children. Wesport, Ct.: Greenwood Press, 200l. Call No. HV 1431 F58 2001@ Lemieux Library.

Kempadoo, Kamala. Global Sex Workers: Rights Resistance and Redefinition. New York: Routledge, 1998. Call No. HQ 111 G56 1998@ Lemieux Library.

Ryan, Bishop. Night Market: Sexual Cultures and the Thai Economic Miracle. New York: Routledge, 1998. Call No. HQ 242.55 A5 B7 1998@ Lemieux Library.

Seabrook, Jeremy. Travels in the Skin Trade: Tourism and the Sex Industry. London: Pluto Press. Call No. HQ 242.55 B3 S43 2001@ Lemieux Library.

Sisters and Daughters Betrayed [video]: The trafficking of women and girls and the fight to end it. Berkeley CA: University of California Extension Center for Media and Independent Learning, 1995. Call No. HQ 411. A4 S57 1995@Lemieux Library.

A report on the practice in Southeast Asia of selling women into virtual slavery for prostitution.

Steinfatt, Thomas M. Working the Bar: Sex Work and Health Communication in Thailand. Westport, Conn: ABLEX Publishing. Call No. HQ 242.55 A5 S78 2002@Lemieux Library.

 

Websites

Human Trafficking.com The research arm of the Polaris Project

Singh, Mini. Debate on Trafficking and Sex-Slavery. Feminist Sexual Ethics Project. Brandeis University.

Sex trafficking and the HIV/AIDS Pandemic. Testimony of Holly Burkhalter. Physicians for Human Rights. June 25, 2003

Trafficking of Women and Children in East Asia and Beyond: A Review of U.S.Policy. Testimony before the U.S. Foreign Relations Committee. Subcommittee of East Asian and Pacific Affairs. by Donna M. Hughes,Ph.d (Professor and Endowed Chair, Womens' Studies, Univ of Rhode Island)

Trafficking in human beings. United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

U.S. Dept. of State Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons. U.S. Dept of State

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes. Traffic in Human Beings

 

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