Visual portrayals of women in the media tend to emphasize idealized standards of thinness and beauty that are beyond the reach of most women. The systematic analysis of the body type of fashion models (Silverstein et al. 1986) provide convincing evidence that women portrayed in glamorous roles in the popular media are thinner than the
Images of women in the media have presented a serious problem and challenge to feminist activists and scholars concerned about women’s status in society. In the US in particular, but also in other parts of the world, the type, quality, and number of images of women in various fictional and nonfictional genres (in film, television
From the very beginning, the oxygen that has given life to the Rodney King story is television. (Alter 1992, 43) Nearly fifteen years have passed since the now-infamous ”Holliday videotape” was aired across the country, but the images captured on that sixty-eight second video clip still resonate in the public’s mind. California highway troopers attempted to