Textual Construction of the Female Body

Jeffries, Lesley

doi:10.1057/9780230593626

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“…As shown in Examples 11 and 12, this myth-puncturing style leads to an approach that is simplifying almost to the point of being black and white (Jeffries 2007): the desire to take revenge after the break-up leads these bloggers to wonder how they could once have loved these men. Narrations go from ridiculing all their ex-boyfriends' physical attributes and personalities to dramatic exaggerations and accusations, to severe criticisms of anything and everything that has to do with their ex-boyfriends.…”

Section: New Representations Of Love: Puncturing Love and Relationshimentioning

confidence: 99%

Competing narratives, gender and threaded identity in cyberspace

Gómez

2010

Journal of Gender Studies

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Using a blog corpus, the current study of weblog writing explores changing cultural norms surrounding technology-mediated formation of interpersonal relationships and aims to gain insight into important aspects of online female behaviour. More specifically, this article analyses the way in which British and Spanish female adolescents disclose personal information about their love-lives. In doing so, I argue that these bloggers create competing narratives which consist of either crediting or puncturing traditional love and relationship myths. The study of these competing narratives, in turn, reveals that these female adolescents live out different gendered discourses when they are entering, and when they are leaving, love relationships. Furthermore, this study examines the contemporary association between laddish attitudes in female adolescents and the involvement of verbal aggression in their personal weblogs.

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Section: New Representations Of Love: Puncturing Love and Relationshimentioning

confidence: 99%

Competing narratives, gender and threaded identity in cyberspace

Gómez

2010

Journal of Gender Studies

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“…Critical Stylistics aims to 'assemble the main general functions that a text has in representing reality' (Jeffries, 2010: 14), and may be considered as a development of CDA in terms of both theory and methodology (Jeffries, 2007(Jeffries, , 2010. One of the main criticisms of CDA is that it has not yet developed a full inventory of tools for the analyst to work with; a (perhaps inevitable) consequence of its multidisciplinary theoretical foundations.…”

Section: Methodological Approach: Critical Stylisticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…One of the main criticisms of CDA is that it has not yet developed a full inventory of tools for the analyst to work with; a (perhaps inevitable) consequence of its multidisciplinary theoretical foundations. Critical Stylistics attempts to counter this by introducing a systematic model of analysis which amalgamates tools from stylistics and critical linguistics, in order to uncover the linguistic choices of text producers and their possible ideological implications (Jeffries, 2007(Jeffries, , 2010.…”

Section: Methodological Approach: Critical Stylisticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ideologies of masculinity in women’s magazines

Coffey-Glover

2015

Gender and Language

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This article reports on an analysis of ideologies of masculinity in a corpus of women's magazines from a (feminist) critical stylistic perspective. I identify four core themes of ideologies of masculinity produced via assumed and implied meanings. My discussion of these themes demonstrates how the texts' constructions of masculinity ultimately uphold gender dichotomies, denying a performative understanding of 'gender' in a poststructuralist age. The ideologies discussed have potentially negative implications for female readers, because they serve to maintain notions of gender difference and uphold the power differential between women and men.

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“…In contemporary western societies body objectification is at an all-time high, with increasing pressure for body manipulation and recourse to surgery; practices that can be viewed as part of body 'technologisation' (Jeffries 2007). The mass media promote an idealised slender shape which, owing to genetics and physiology, few women can actually attain (Lupton 2013).…”

Section: Age Gender and Discourses Of The Bodymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The prevalence of such a discourse in western societies emphasises the importance of examining young people's communication surrounding weight-related issues. There is a correlation between women's exposure to media representations of slender ideals and reported dissatisfaction with their own bodies (Jeffries 2007). This problem has also been exacerbated by the current media obsession with the global 'obesity epidemic' (Lupton 2013), which has contributed further to the stigmatisation of fatness.…”

Section: Age Gender and Discourses Of The Bodymentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Am I anorexic?’ Weight, eating and discourses of the body in online adolescent health communication

Mullany¹,

Smith

Harvey

et al. 2016

Communication & Medicine

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This article explores the communicative choices of adolescents seeking advice from an internet-based health forum run by medical professionals. Techniques from the disciplines of sociolinguistics and corpus linguistics are integrated to examine the strategies used in adolescents’ health questions. We focus on the emergent theme of Weight and Eating, a concern which features prominently in adolescents’ requests to medical practitioners. The majority of advice requests are authored by adolescent girls, with queries peaking at age 12. A combined quantitative and qualitative analysis provides detailed insights into adolescents’ communicative strategies. Examinations of question types, register and a discourse-based analysis draw attention to dominant discourses of the body, including a ‘discourse of slenderness’ and a ‘discourse of normality’, which exercise negative influences on adolescents’ dietary behaviours. The findings are of applied linguistic relevance to health practitioners and educators, as they provide them with access to adolescents’ health queries in their own language.

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Textual Construction of the Female Body

Cited by 83 publications

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Competing narratives, gender and threaded identity in cyberspace

Competing narratives, gender and threaded identity in cyberspace

Ideologies of masculinity in women’s magazines

‘Am I anorexic?’ Weight, eating and discourses of the body in online adolescent health communication

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