From the category archives:

body image

survey analysis: part 4

May 12, 2010

Did you miss part 1, part 2 or part 3? When talking about body image nowadays, people assume that the media has something to do with it. I know personally the media had nothing to do with my eating disorder so I thought that I’d try to ask people about their experience with eating disorders [...]

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survey analysis: part 3

May 11, 2010

Miss part 1 or part 2? Along with the media, there are advertisements. I wanted to see what women said about the images they saw to get a better understanding of how they perceived the models. In the survey, there were three advertisements that were shown to the respondents- one ad of 5 plus-sized models, [...]

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survey analysis: part 2

May 10, 2010

Did you miss part one? We talked about viewership of magazines, beauty definition and body image, but now it’s about… … the Media Unfortunately, whether it’s the media’s fault for making women feel not good enough or the reader’s fault for buying the magazine in the first place, 46% of women said that the media [...]

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survey analysis: part 1

May 10, 2010

Ok, here it is! I promised I’d share some of the results I wrote about for the end of my study book so here it is. I think after you read it, you’ll understand why I’m launching the new blog and what it means to me to do so. I’m going to split it into [...]

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the price of beauty: japan

April 23, 2010

Tokyo was the next place Jessica, Ken and Cacee visited to look at their beauty customs. I was interested to see it because my parent’s neighbor’s daughter went there for a while after college and spoke so highly of it that ever since, it’s a place I have on my “travel list.” There’s a lot [...]

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can we normalize food?

April 19, 2010

Yesterday I posted this article with a small write-up about how I got it and some questions I had after reading it like can we truly help our young women or is it a battle we’ll always be fighting? As someone who would love to get into programming for young women (high school and college-aged) [...]

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