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Textual Construction of the Female Body
Lesley Jeffries
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Description for Textual Construction of the Female Body
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFGR; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
225
Condition
New
Number of Pages
212
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349423064
SKU
V9781349423064
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Ref
99-15
About Lesley Jeffries
Lesley Jeffries is Professor of English and Director of the Stylistics Research Centre at Huddersfield University, UK. She is co-series editor (with Dan Mcintyre) for Palgrave's Perspectives on the English Language , and has published on the style of contemporary poetry and ideology in news reporting and political discourse. She is also co-editor of Babel: The Language Magazine .
Reviews for Textual Construction of the Female Body
'A valuable contribution to the fields of feminist linguistics, gender studies, critical discourse approach, text analysis, and discourse studies in general.' - Winnie W. F. Or, University of Texas at Arlington, USA