Textual Construction of the Female Body: A Critical Discourse Approach

by Lesley Jeffries

This volume takes a critical discourse approach to the ways women's magazines contribute to the social construction of particular kinds of female body - as ideal, beautiful, ugly, overweight or engineered. Looking at the language used, it provides an insight into the experience of the female reader, and the likely impact upon her self-image.

225 pages, Hardcover

First published September 18, 2007