Are contemporary media images which seem to display women as sexually empowered actually harmful to women?

Halliwell, Emma; Malson, Helen; Tischner, Irmgard

doi:10.1177/0361684310385217

All Outputs (4)

“You can’t be supersized?” – Exploring femininities, body size and control within the obesity terrain (2010)
Book Chapter
Tischner, I., & Malson, H. (2010). “You can’t be supersized?” – Exploring femininities, body size and control within the obesity terrain. In E. Rich, L. Monaghan, & L. Aphramor (Eds.), Debating Obesity: Critical Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan

Discursive constructions of eating disorders: A story completion task (2010)
Journal Article
Walsh, E., & Malson, H. (2010). Discursive constructions of eating disorders: A story completion task. Feminism and Psychology, 20(4), 529-537. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959353509350759

Using a post-structualist, discourse analytic framework this study investigates constructions of 'anorexia' and 'bulimia' made by young people. A story completion methodology was employed to allow young people to express their understandings of eatin... Read More about Discursive constructions of eating disorders: A story completion task.

Qualitative methods from psychology (2010)
Book Chapter
Malson, H. (2010). Qualitative methods from psychology. In I. Bourgeault, R. Dingwall, & R. de Vries (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Methods in Health Research. London: Sage

Are contemporary media images which seem to display women as sexually empowered actually harmful to women? (2010)
Journal Article
Halliwell, E., Malson, H., & Tischner, I. (2010). Are contemporary media images which seem to display women as sexually empowered actually harmful to women?. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 35(1), 38-45. https://doi.org/10.1177/0361684310385217

There has been a shift in the depiction of women in advertising from objectifying representations of women as passive sex objects to agentic sexual representations where the women appear powerful and in control (Gill, 2007a, 2008), and there is subst... Read More about Are contemporary media images which seem to display women as sexually empowered actually harmful to women?.