Scholarly interest in body size has increased in concert with recent efforts to shape and
assess bodies in particular ways within industrialized social contexts. Attending to both overt …

This book was written partly for my own sake. I was born into a very poor family in Southern
Thailand. Mum and Dad were the products of marginalised migrant populations in Thailand …

The current study examined body image concerns among African American women. In
recent years, there has been an attempt to include ethnic minority samples in body image …

Although the relationship between media exposure and risk behavior among youth is
established at a population level, the specific psychological and social mechanisms …

Traditionally, body image literature has used race as a variable to explain ethnic-specific
differences in body satisfaction and the prevalence of eating disorders. Instead of employing …

Mainstream media images of female beauty disproportionately feature slim, White women.
Although Black American women typically report higher self and body esteem, and lower …

This article aims to claim 'body size'as an increasingly important axis of signification. It draws
on research from various disciplines to present an exploratory overview of the different ways …

Handbook of gender research in psychology 123 Joan C. Chrisler Donald R. McCreary Editors
Handbook of Gender Research in Psychology Volume 1 Gender Research in General and …

Very few empirical studies have investigated the effect that culturally relevant beauty ideals
(such as long, straight hair and lighter skin tones) have on Black women's feelings about …

Racial minority men and women face a wide variety of appearance-related pressures,
including ones connected to their cultural backgrounds and phenotypic features associated …