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The effects of advertising on body image have been studied by researchers, ranging from psychologists to marketing professionals. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] While many factors, such as "parenting, education, [and] intimate relationships" also affect body image, "the media and body image are closely related."
Wolf's book was a quick bestseller, garnering intensely polarized responses from the public and mainstream media, but winning praise from many feminists. Second-wave feminist Germaine Greer wrote that The Beauty Myth was "the most important feminist publication since The Female Eunuch ", and Gloria Steinem wrote: " The Beauty Myth is a smart ...
Ellen Staurowsky characterized serious psychological and physical health risks that are associated with girls' negative body images. Negative body image is often associated with disordered eating, depression, and even substance abuse. There is widespread evidence of damaging dissatisfaction among women and young girls with their appearance. [146]
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The body ideal depicted in those films, the study found, was Eurocentric and thin, which was, in a 2015 study, deemed influential to body dissatisfaction in young girls.
TODAY/AOL 'Ideal to Real' body image survey results. Brynn Mannino. Updated July 14, 2016 at 10:10 PM. Show comments. Advertisement. Advertisement. In Other News. Entertainment. Entertainment.
The attraction for a proportionate body also influences an appeal for erect posture. [239] One cross-cultural survey comparing body-mass preferences among 300 of the most thoroughly studied cultures in the world showed that 81% of cultures preferred a female body size that in English would be described as "plump". [240]
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