Sexualized Body Image

Adomaitis, Alyssa, Kim Johnson. "Advertisements: Interpreting Images used to Sell to Young Adults." Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management12.2 (2008): 182-92. ProQuest. Web. 20 Apr. 2016. My focus is not advertisements solely but this web article is very helpful when it comes to how media has changed the way women and girls look at their body image. Many of the girls in the study thought the model to be the one you need to compare yourself to because she had the perfect body. This author made it very clear that advertisements do have a negative impact on young women, they get the idea that they need to be portrayed as every skinny over sexualized model. The young women who participated in this study made comments like “God! Why didn’t you make me thin!”, “She’s skinny, I could never look like that! I’m fat!”, “I’d feel monstrous next to her” Girls often felt insufficient
I like this article because it gives a different approach to body image and ideals that the media makes us think about. It gives us the nutritional side of things and talks much more about someone’s physical health. I think it will be beneficial for my paper and I will put in the stats about the body mass index that young women should have and what models have. It will be a good way to compare and contrast.
Murray, Dara Persis. "Branding “Real” Social Change In Dove's Campaign For Real Beauty." Feminist Media Studies 13.1 (2013): 83-101. Academic Search Complete. Web. 20 Apr. 2016. This article focuses on a study that looks at women of all ages and all over the world and with a 25 minute phone conversation with each woman. They obtained statistics from each and every women pertaining if they felt beautiful and how they would rather the media pertains beauty. There was other focuses in this article as well like the feminists perspective on beauty and how the ideal woman is