Title: Does the media shape the role of women?
- Social pressures leading to self-fulfilling prophecy - skinny celebrities -eating disorders - size zero (Nicole Richie).
- Beauty adverts - pressuring women to buy their products to keep youthful looks etc.
- Nuts and Zoo magazines show scantily clad women with surgically enhanced breasts - women believe this is how they should look to find and keep a man happy (Lucy Pinder).
- Contradicting point of women's magazines/books promoting the independent woman lifestyle - not needing a man to be happy.
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Texts to support the essay:
Naomi Klein - The Beauty Myth - How Images Of Beauty Are Used Against Women
'During the past decade, women breached the power structure; meanwhile, eating disorders rose exponentially and cosmetic surgery became the fastest-growing specialty...'
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