Body image in adult women: Moving beyond the younger years

LS Kilpela, CB Becker, N Wesley… - Advances in Eating …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
In spite of copious literature investigating body dissatisfaction and its correlates in
adolescents and young adult women, exploration of body image disturbances in adult …

Living in uncertain times: experiences of menopause and reproductive aging

H Dillaway - The Palgrave handbook of critical menstruation studies, 2020 - Springer
This chapter explores the everyday experiences of women living in and passing through the
stages of perimenopause and menopause, a transition that brings both physical change and …

The impact of Western beauty ideals on the lives of women: A sociocultural perspective

RM Calogero, M Boroughs, JK Thompson - The body beautiful …, 2007 - Springer
According to a recent survey of 3,300 girls and women across 10 countries, 90 per cent of all
women aged 15 to 64 worldwide want to change at least one aspect of their physical …

Gender and body image

RM Calogero, JK Thompson - … of gender research in psychology: Volume …, 2010 - Springer
Gender and Body Image | SpringerLink Skip to main content Advertisement SpringerLink
Account Menu Find a journal Publish with us Track your research Search Cart Book cover …

Resisting the medicalisation of menopause: Reclaiming the body through design

M Ciolfi Felice, MLJ Søndergaard… - Proceedings of the 2021 …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
The menopause transition involves bodily-rooted, socially-shaped changes, often in a
context of medicalisation that marginalises people based on their age and gender. With the …

The developmental and cultural contexts of objectified body consciousness: a longitudinal analysis of two cohorts of women.

NM McKinley - Developmental psychology, 2006 - psycnet.apa.org
Longitudinal analysis of 10-year follow-up data on objectified body consciousness, body
esteem, weight-related attitudes and behaviors, and psychological well-being in 74 middle …

“A part of being a woman, really”: Menopause at work as “dirty” femininity

LA Whiley, A Wright, SE Stutterheim… - Gender, Work & …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This research extends understandings of women's lived experiences of menopause at work,
as embodied complex gendered aging. Menopause as a type of “dirty” femininity and femme …

'Taking charge of your health': discourses of responsibility in English‐Canadian women's magazines

SC Roy - Sociology of health & illness, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
This article presents an examination of the ways in which responsibility for health is
constructed in popular English‐Canadian women's magazines. Women's magazines are a …

2007 Presidential address: Fear of losing control: Power, perfectionism, and the psychology of women

JC Chrisler - Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2008 - journals.sagepub.com
Anecdotal evidence and popular culture suggest that fear of losing control of oneself is
common among North American women, yet there is little in the way of data or theory to …

Menopausal attitudes, objectified body consciousness, aging anxiety, and body esteem: European American women's body experiences in midlife

NM McKinley, LA Lyon - Body image, 2008 - Elsevier
Seventy-four European American women aged 50–68 years completed surveys of
menopausal attitudes, appearance aging anxiety, body esteem, body surveillance, and body …