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Summary:

In the book “ Body image: Understanding body dissatisfaction in men, women and children” (New York:1999) by Sarah Grogan, she states that media has great impact on women image. Grogan claims that media promoting a particular shape and size of women’s bodies has caused pressure to women. The author also states that media presents male and female body quite differently. It trend to be portray men as standard weight , women trend to be portrayed as underweight as the author claimed. Grogan concerns media has been expressed over the representation of unrealistic images of female beauty. The author tells reader an example that people complained about Omega’s manger used a model who was so thin as to appear anorexic in it advertisement in Vogue magazine. The author suggests that images on magazines have powerful effects on their reader and supplying definitions of what it means to be a woman. The author also believes that eating disorders may result from observing slender models in magazines. Furthermore, women received social pressure of how they should look like primly by media followed by peers and family. Finally, the author shows that women nowadays are critical of the narrow range of body shapes presented in the media and they were angry at media especially fashion manipulate the way they feel about their bodies.

Reference:

Grogan ,S. (1999). Body image: Understanding body dissatisfaction in men, women and
children.New York:Routage





Critique:
I think the author well presented how the media affect women’s body image I n this book. I completely agreed with the author that magazine especially fashion advertisement created unrealistic ideal body images and caused pressure to women about what their body shapes should be. Sometimes, I do feel pressure to look like models in the magazine. In my opinion, it is interesting to know that many men reported that they would not exercise or diet tot try to emulate the bodies of slender, muscular actors. In the book, the author states that women were more critical to media than before. I think it is good. The book were written by simple English so it is easy to read . In addition, I think the author should give more real life example to support how media influence women images.