A critical analysis of oppositional discourses of the ideal female body in women's conversations
Socialisation agents such as the popular media and same age female peers construct and reproduce notions of what is physically ideal, feminine and beautiful in a woman (Hesse-Biber 1996). My interest lies in how a group of young women reproduce, contest and possibly transform such notions in convers...
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Rhodes University
2007
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002641 |