Media, Ethnicity and Body Image Dissatisfaction

This book reveals the nowadays epidemic of women's body image dissatisfaction. It provides a contemporary insight and understanding on how the pervasiveness of media and its ideals appears to be dominating and spreading to all cultural milieus. The media has been found to be the most powerful and pervasive conveyor of sociocultural values regarding ideal body, size and shape. The media portrays images that promise social acceptance for thin women make this body type become highly desirable. Majority of women internalized and endorsed this ideal both in the dominant culture and in other cultures leading to body image discontent. This book draws from perspectives of different academic scholars in relation to body image and uncovered that no particular culture could be so immune to the bombardment of sociocultural messages regarding appearance disseminated by the media and peers. Women simply have nowhere to hide these days from the social media.