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Lavia, Jesica. Pese lo que pese: Contra la hegemonía del cuerpo ideal. B, 2021.

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Peter, Weiermair, and Salzburger Landessammlungen Rupertinum, eds. Ideal and reality: The image of the body in 20th-century art from Bonnard to Warhol : works on paper. Edition Stemmle, 1998.

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Orbach, Susie. Bodies: Big ideas, small books. Picador, 2009.

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Ky, Tran. Mince ou grosse?: Histoire du corps idéal. Perrin, 1996.

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LaBute, Neil. Fat pig: A play. Faber and Faber, 2005.

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Glaiel, Dana. Modern images of a thin female ideal vs. general nutrition knowledge and attitudes concerning nutrition and health: Effect on body satisfaction of adolescent girls. University of Surrey Roehampton, 2003.

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Florin, Gail. Your ideal silhouette: Body proportion analysis (Ideal image). Meridian Education, 1991.

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Ideal body: The new science of cosmetic surgery. Ideal Look LLC, 2009.

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What's real, what's ideal: Overcoming a negative body image. Rosen Pub. Group, 1999.

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The muscular ideal: Psychological, social, and medical perspectives. American Psychological Association, 2005.

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Davis, Brangien. What's Real What's Ideal Overcome: Overcoming a Negative Body Image. Hazelden, 1999.

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Florin, Gail. Your Ideal Silhouette : Body Proportion Analysis/Item No. 8033 (Workbook). Your Image, 1985.

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The feminine ideal. Reaktion Books, 1997.

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Harper, Kristina, and Hanne Konradsen. Cultural Considerations in Body Image and Cancer. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190655617.003.0016.

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Abstract: This chapter discusses the Western cultural perspective of the body ideal and how cultural norms may influence the body image experiences of patients with cancer. The chapter begins with an overview of the sociocultural standards of appearance embraced in Western society, including the body-ideal shift throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, and how this specifically relates to physical changes that can co-occur with cancer, followed by a broader look at additional facets of Western culture (e.g., consumerism, surgical enhancement, media) that may shape the body image experience and

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What's Real, What's Ideal: Overcoming a Negative Body Image (Teen Health Library of Eating Disorder Prevention). Rosen Publishing Group, 1998.

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The Muscular Ideal: Psychological, Social, and Medical Perspectives. American Psychological Association (APA), 2007.

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Hooper, Tim. Workout Journal: Practical Step-By-Step Workout and Diet to Achieve an Ideal Body Image. Independently Published, 2020.

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Hooper, Tim. Workout Journal: Practical Step-By-Step Workout and Diet to Achieve an Ideal Body Image. Independently Published, 2020.

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Salzburger Landessammlungen Rupertinum (Corporate Author) and Peter Weiermair (Editor), eds. Ideal and Reality: The Image of the Body in 20th-Century Art from Bonnard to Warhol. Edition Stemmle, 1994.

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Bleaching beauty: Light skin as a Filipina ideal. Giraffe Books, 2006.

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Stice, Eric, Paul Rohde, and Heather Shaw. The Body Project. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med:psych/9780199859245.001.0001.

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The Body Project is an empirically based eating disorder prevention program that offers young women an opportunity to critically consider the costs of pursuing the ultra-thin ideal promoted in the mass media, and it improves body acceptance and reduces risk for developing eating disorders. Young women with elevated body dissatisfaction are recruited for group sessions in which they participate in a series of verbal, written, and behavioral exercises in which they consider the negative effects of pursuing the thin-ideal. This online resource provides information on the significance of body imag

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Ataria, Yochai, Shogo Tanaka, and Shaun Gallagher, eds. Body Schema and Body Image. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198851721.001.0001.

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Body schema refers to the system of sensory-motor functions that enables control of the position of body parts in space, without conscious awareness of those parts. Body image refers to a conscious representation of the way the body appears—a set of conscious perceptions, affective attitudes, and beliefs pertaining to one’s own bodily image. In 2005, Shaun Gallagher published an influential book entitled ‘How the Body Shapes the Mind’. This book not only defined both body schema (BS) and body image (BI), but also explored the complicated relationship between the two. The book also established

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Piran, Niva. Handbook of Positive Body Image and Embodiment. Edited by Tracy L. Tylka. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med-psych/9780190841874.001.0001.

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Positive body image entails appreciating, loving, respecting, nurturing, protecting, and seeing beauty in the body regardless of its consistency with media appearance ideals. Embodiment reflects a connection between the mind and the body, which have a continual dialectical relationship with the world, and includes positive body connection, body agency and functionality, attuned self-care, positive experiences with body desires, and living in the body as a subjective rather than objectified site. This 38-chapter handbook reviews current knowledge of positive body image and embodiment, as well a

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Sudbrack, Jennifer L. Ideas of body in Western culture and the psychological loss of body. 2002.

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One Size Does Not Fit All. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2022. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978721050.

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This edited collection explores the malleability and influence of body image, focusing particularly on how media representation and popular culture’s focus on the body exacerbates the crucial social influence these representations can have on audiences’ perceptions of themselves and others. Contributors investigate the cultural context and lived experiences of individuals’ relationships with their bodies, going beyond examination of the thin, ideal body type to explore the emerging representations and portrayals of a diverse set of body types across the media spectrum, paving the way for futur

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Buchegger, Lisa. Beauty Ideals, Appearances, and Body Images in Disney's Feature Films. Lit Verlag, 2023.

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Baker, Courtney R., ed. A Litany for New Orleans, 2005. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252039485.003.0006.

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This chapter examines the current state of the image of black suffering and death and whether the radical potential of humane insight continues by focusing on New Orleans's experience with Hurricane Katrina in 2005. It revisits the book's analysis and theorization of aspects of critical race spectatorship that are defined as visual encounters, in which the viewer is called upon to identify explicitly his or her relationship to race and to (anti-)racism. It also considers the political activation and mobilization of the notion of looking for antiracist ends. By discussing images of New Orleans

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Words and Wonders: Images of Nature and Ideas to Inspire Your Personal Development. Fernandez M. D., Enrique J., 2024.

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Hughes, Jim. Introduction to Intra-Operative and Surgical Radiography. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198813170.001.0001.

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This book is designed to be both a quick guide and a reference text for radiographers and other staff who perform imaging during surgical procedures. Over 40 of the most common procedures are covered in detail, from initial setup to sending final images, with sections on patient positioning, C-arm approach, anatomy, surgical hardware, and alternative techniques. These include cases related to orthopaedics, urology, paediatrics, neurology, and other branches of medicine. Each chapter covers both surgical and imaging techniques, to give the radiographer a better idea of what is required in terms

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Fingeret, Michelle Cororve, and Irene Teo. Synthesis. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190655617.003.0018.

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Abstract: This chapter is dedicated to summarizing key findings on what is known about body image care for cancer patients, and offering suggestions for future directions in the field of oncology. In this concluding chapter, the goal is to emphasize broad ideas related to body image theory, research, and interventions particularly as it relates to cancer-specific treatment sequelae. Further attention is given to special populations such as children, older adults, men, and in acknowledging important cultural considerations.

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Dixon, Louise, and Luana Marques. Cultural, Racial, and Ethnic Aspects of Body Dysmorphic Disorder and Treatment Implications. Edited by Katharine A. Phillips. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190254131.003.0016.

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Research suggests that body image is significantly influenced by sociocultural variables such as beauty ideals and/or ethnicity. As such, elucidating sociocultural variables such as race and ethnicity in relation to body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) is important to understanding and treating this condition. This chapter reviews perceptions of body image in BDD, body areas of concern in BDD, BDD-related behaviors, and barriers to care as they relate to race and ethnicity in individuals with BDD. Relationships between identity variables and BDD are illustrated using a case example. Modifications fo

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Lori, Ope. Beyond the Feminine. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350204874.

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How can contemporary artists and image makers challenge representations of race and gender in visual culture and produce alternate visions? Exploring a range of lens-based British art that engages with questions of race and gender, this book critiques power structures that embed racial dichotomies to arrive at a nuanced understanding of the position of race in contemporary visual culture. It examines how white and light-skinned Black women are privileged over Black and dark-skinned women in music videos, advertising, and even in classic paintings. Focusing on skin colour as implicit in constru

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Mittleman, Alan L. Persons in the Image of God. Princeton University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691176277.003.0003.

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Using the motif of the image of God as an organizing principle, this chapter shows how Jewish sources address such issues as mind/body dualism, body and soul, the relation of human nature to animal nature, sexuality, birth and death, vulnerability and dependence, and violence and evil as well as selfhood and the relations among rationality, emotion, desire, and imagination. Classical Jewish thought assumes and propagates dichotomies: human beings are bodies and souls, male and female; a little lower than the angels, but not much higher than the animals; descended from a common father and mothe

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Gómez-Quintero, Raysa Elena Amador, and Mireya Pérez Bustillo. The Female Body. Greenwood Press, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400650444.

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Including both narratives and visual texts by and about Latina women, Amador Gómez-Quintero and Pérez Bustillo address the question of how women represent themselves. Utilizing paintings, novels, photographs, memoirs, and diaries this work examines the depiction of the female body in 20th-century creative expression. From writers such as Julia Alvarez and Christina Garcia to artists including Frida Kahlo and Ana Mendieta, it provides both a broad outline and a finely detailed exploration of how a largely overlooked community of creative women have seen, drawn, photographed, and written about t

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Fischer-Lichte, Erika. A Culture in Crisis. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199651634.003.0006.

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Chapter 4 investigates the role of the new image of Greece in the first decades of the twentieth century. ‘A Culture in Crisis: Max Reinhardt’s Productions of Greek Tragedies (1903–1919)’ addresses two problems: first, the new body ideal and its liberation from the restraints imposed on it until then, and, second, the division within society of those who made a cult of their individuality and the rapidly growing masses of the proletariat. While in Reinhardt’s Electra (1903) Gertrud Eysoldt displayed her body as that of a maenad or a hysteric, a number of new devices were developed in Oedipus t

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Stanghellini, Giovanni. Schizophrenia and the disembodiment of desire. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198792062.003.0030.

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The schizophrenic person’s existential trajectory reflects the intolerable mixture of his desperate need for the Other and his hopeless attempts to orientate in human, and especially erotic, relationships. The schizophrenic person may turn away from actual reality into a mystical-romantic, ‘higher’ ideal, which like a dim mist protects him from the encounter with the real Other. Two features seem to best characterize this type of existence. One is his philosophy of life that indulges in cramping reflections concerned with spirituality, that is, rectitude, fidelity, nobility, and purity. The se

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Ferguson, Claire. Double Exposure. University of Edinburgh, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.2218/ed.9781836450429.

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The output is a garment, designed and made by Claire Ferguson. The research used fashion design to explore how fashion silhouettes signify accepted notions of female beauty within the Renaissance and contemporary eras. It was initiated in response to current issues relating to body image in fashion and contemporary culture. Ferguson’s aim was to raise awareness of these issues and explore historic trends and fashions and ideal body types. The garment is composed of two dresses layered over one another. The under dress is made from fine lace in a minimal, modern form. The outer is a knitted dre

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Belsey, Alex. Image of a Man. Liverpool University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781789620290.001.0001.

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The post-war British artist Keith Vaughan (1912-77) painted male figures, whether alone or in groups, as a life-long enquiry into identity, sensuality, and the sanctity of the body. Yet Vaughan was not only a supremely accomplished painter; he was an impassioned, eloquent writer. Commenced in the summer of 1939 as war across Europe seemed inevitable, Vaughan’s journal was a space in which he could articulate ideas about politics, art, love and sex during a period of great political and personal upheaval. Image of a Man is the first book to provide a comprehensive critical reading of Vaughan’s

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Mee, Sharon Jane. The Pulse in Cinema. Edinburgh University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474475846.001.0001.

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This book builds on Jean-François Lyotard’s concept of the dispositif, Gilles Deleuze’s work on sensation and Georges Bataille’s economic theory to conceptualise a pulse in cinema. Its aim is to rethink the affective force and economy of film spectatorship better understood by Lyotard’s concept of the dispositif than the formulation of the cinematic apparatus of 1970s film theory. The dispositif recognises the distribution of the pulse – the force of intensities in the body of the spectator and in the image – in terms of an energetic exchange and expenditure. Charting prototypes of the pulse i

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Burkinshaw, Mal. Silhouettes en Dentelle. University of Edinburgh, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.2218/ed.9781836450092.

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Silhouettes en Dentelle is a series of eight transparent tailored jackets, designed by Burkinshaw. The jackets were made in response to historic ideals of beauty presented in the collection of Renaissance portraits at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. Burkinshaw’s research explores the ways in which contemporary fashion design can learn from changing historical perceptions of body-image and ideals of beauty. Challenging normative approaches to design by directly addressing questions of gender and body shape through design and production process, it invests fashion design to stimulate dis

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LaBute, Neil. Fat Pig. Faber & Faber, Limited, 2008.

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LaBute, Neil. Fat Pig. Faber & Faber, 2004.

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Schwadron, Hannah. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190624194.003.0001.

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This introductory chapter frames the book’s emphasis on the twenty-first-century Sexy Jewess, whose image proliferates in neoburlesque, comedy, mainstream film, and progressive pornography. A review of significant literature in Jewish studies, gender and sexuality studies, and dance and performance studies (1) introduces how performers complicate self-critical jokes of the excessive Jewish female body by playing up their differences, (2) historicizes the techniques that performers employ to mimic and master different ideas of sexiness, and (3) theorizes how performances of Jewish female identi

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Scott, Charlotte. The Child in Shakespeare. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198828556.001.0001.

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This book examines the child on Shakespeare’s stage. As a life force, an impassioned plea for justice, a legacy, history, memory, or image of love or violence, children are everywhere in Shakespeare’s plays. Focusing on Shakespeare’s unique interest in the young body, the life stage, the parental and social dynamic, this book offers the first sustained account of the role and representation of the child in Shakespeare’s dramatic imagination. Drawing on a vast range of contemporary texts, including parenting manuals, household and pedagogic texts, as well as books on nursing and maternity, chil

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Liu, Chih-Chieh. Denaturalizing Coco’s “Sexy” Hips. Edited by Melissa Blanco Borelli. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199897827.013.018.

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This chapter, starting from a seemingly standardized dance promotion in Mandarin pop, one of the dominant music genres in East Asia, attempts to reveal the cultural logics and to denaturalize the corporeal discourses behind what is commonly perceived as the “naturally” spectacular hip movement of a Chinese-American superstar, Coco Lee, whose dance is, in Taiwan, often linked with the idea of “sexiness” and “American-ness.” Calling upon Judith Butler’s idea of performativity (1990) in tandem with Richard Dyer’s notion of star image (1979) and the concept of the dancing body (Thomas 1995; Foster

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Katz, Mira-Lisa. Moving Ideas: Multimodality and Embodied Learning in Communities and Schools. Lang Publishing, Incorporated, Peter, 2013.

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Katz, Mira-Lisa. Moving Ideas: Multimodality and Embodied Learning in Communities and Schools. Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter, 2013.

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Lisette, Cara. The Eating Disorder Recovery Journal. Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2022. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781805016571.

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The Eating Disorder Recovery Journal is designed to help you to understand your eating disorder better and to support you in your recovery journey. It is packed full of activities, such as writing prompts, colouring pages and crafting ideas, as well as motivational quotes and positive affirmations to help keep you on track. Drawing on evidence-based techniques including CBT and mindfulness, it brings together creative activities and approaches that have helped author Cara Lisette to challenge her eating disorder, stay motivated, improve body image and prevent relapses.

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Baker, Courtney R., ed. Emmett Till, Justice, and the Task of Recognition. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252039485.003.0004.

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This chapter examines how the political ideas that would come to shape the civil rights movement in America were fomented and sometimes nearly thwarted by focusing on the many visual encounters with the dead and disfigured body of Emmett Till—some in the flesh, some mediated by photography. The chapter analyzes how the decision of Mamie Till-Mobley, Emmett Till's mother, to have an open-casket funeral for her son made possible the wide-scale circulation of photographs of his body. An examination of the courtroom in which Till's murderers were tried makes clear the paradoxical uses of his image

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Tan men/pale women: Color and gender in archaic Greece and Egypt, a comparative approach. The University of Michigan Press, 2013.

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