Research Catalog

Becoming women : the embodied self in image culture / Carla Rice.

Title
Becoming women : the embodied self in image culture / Carla Rice.
Author
Rice, Carla
Publication
Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2014]

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Details

Description
x, 396 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Summary
Becoming Women offers a thoughtful examination of the search for identity in an image-oriented world. That search is told through the experiences of a group of women who came of age in the wake of second and third wave feminism, featuring voices from marginalized and misrepresented groups.
Subject
  • Beauty Culture
  • Beauty, Personal > Social aspects
  • Body Image > psychology
  • Body image in girls > Social aspects
  • Body image in women > Social aspects
  • Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) > Social aspects
  • Women > psychology
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-366) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
In the shadow of difference -- In a girl's body -- Invisible in full view -- The student body -- Puberty as sexual spectacle -- A body that looks, and feels, like a woman -- In the mirror of beauty culture
ISBN
  • 9781442640436 (bound)
  • 144264043X (bound)
  • 9781442610057 (pbk.)
  • 1442610050 (pbk.)