Title Empowered Femininity : the Textual Construction of Femininity in Women's Fitness Magazines.

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Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2012.

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Summary	Women in the first decades of the 21st century encounter competing ideologies of femininity. This book traces the existence of two such ideologies - traditional femininity and resistant femininity - in language, in women's magazines, and in relation to the body. The book then uses a Discourse Analysis of women's fitness magazines to investigate how these ideologies, or discourses, are encoded and ultimately merged into a single discourse of femininity. The extremely thin female body encodes ...
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 77-86) and index.
Contents	TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF TABLES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	Femininity.
	Femininity.
	Women's periodicals -- Social aspects.
	Women's periodicals.
	Social aspects.
	Physical fitness -- Periodicals -- Social aspects.
	Physical fitness -- Periodicals.
	Femininity in popular culture.
	Femininity in popular culture.
	Women in popular culture.
	Women in popular culture.
	Human body in popular culture.
	Human body in popular culture.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Electronic books.
	Periodicals.
	Periodicals.
Other Form:	Print version: Williams, Tracy Rundstrom. Empowered Femininity : The Textual Construction of Femininity in Women's Fitness Magazines. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ©2012 9781443840781
ISBN	9781443845465 (electronic book)
	1443845469 (electronic book)
	1443840785
	9781443840781
	9781299645530 (MyiLibrary)
	1299645534 (MyiLibrary)

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