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Sophie Kashner
Mrs. DeBock
English 4
18 February 2016
Essential Question: How does media affect a woman's body image?
Working Thesis: The both negatively and positively affects a woman's body image.
Refined Thesis: Media has a positive and negative impact on how women view themselves in
weight, appearance, and overall beauty in general.
Annotated Bibliography
Fox-Kales, Emily. Body Shots: Hollywood and the Culture of Eating Disorders. Albany: State U
of New York, 2011. Print.
The book Body Shots focuses on the Hollywood celebrities and culture influence the
way regular young girls view themselves. It puts into perspective the impact of the film industry
and how society defines the concepts of what beauty is. The book reflects on how the way
movies mirrors Americas unhealthy ideas about weight. It emphasizes on how star bodies and
celebrity culture influence the way teen girls and women feel about their own size and shape.
Hollywood films, movie stars, and celebrity media help propagate the values of an eating
disordered culture that promotes prominent self scrutiny and a desire to have that ideal thin body.
The book Body Shots supports my thesis because it shows how media can really impact the way
women view themselves and can even lead to girls not being happy with the way that they look.

Perloff, Richard1, r.perloff@csuohio.edu. "Social Media Effects On Young Women's Body

Image Concerns: Theoretical Perspectives And An Agenda For Research." Sex

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Roles71.11/12 (2014): 363-377. Education Full Text (H.W. Wilson). Web. 17 Feb. 2016.
The article Social Media Effects on Young Womens Body Image Concerns: theoretical
Perspectives and an Agenda for Research focuses on media effects on body image concerns of
young adult women. Many surveys have found that media exposure predicts body dissatisfaction,
thin body ideals, and eating disorder problems among adolescent girls.. Mass media plays a large
role in the communication of stereotypes about how the image of a body should look. This article
goes into depth on contemporary social media effects that can help expose some of the root
causes of body image. Perloff's article supports my position that media definitely impacts on how
a woman views herself.

Williams, Robert J., and Lina A Ricciardelli. "Social Media And Body Image Concerns:
Further Considerations And Broader Perspectives." Sex Roles: A Journal Of
Research 11-12 (2014): 389. Academic OneFile. Web. 17 Feb. 2016.
The article Social Media and Body Image concerns: Further considerations and Broader
Perspectives focuses on research that examines the effects of not just social media, but all media
on young womens body image concerns. Williams demonstrates how social media is not the
only form of media that is impacting young women. Adolescent girls admire the fashion and
looks that their favorite singers and actresses that they see on tv. This can cause a young girl to
become displeased in her own body and want to be perfect just like the stars that they are
admiring. Some young girls will do anything to feel perfect or be similar to the person they
admire. Teen girls are not just feeling pressure from social media but also tv, billboards, music,
and everything. This article supports my position on how media impacts a young women.