Research

Books:

-Body Image: Sarah Grogran, 1999
-Eating disorders, body image and the media: BMA, 2000
-The body, culture and society, an introduction: 2000
-Womansize, the tyranny of slenderness: Kim Chernin, 1983
-The body in society an introduction: Alexandra Howson, 2004
-Eating disorders and magical control of the body: Mary Levens, 1995
-Body consciousness: Seymour Fisher, 1973
-The psychology of appearance: Nichola Rumsey, 2005
-Am I thin enough yet? The cult of thinness and the commercialization of identity: Sharlene Hesse-Biber, 1996
-Culture, society and the media: 1988
-Career opportunities in the fashion industry: Peter Vogt, 2002
-Media and everyday life in modern society: Shaun Moores, 2000

All these books link in with body image and the media and how people view themselves and their body. They also look at how people in society deal with the media and weight loss due to modelling in magazines etc. I feel like all these books are a good starting point for research for my FMP and all have something useful included in them for what I want my FMP to be about.

Magazines:

- i-D magazine
- Pigeons and peacocks
- Vogue

I am using these magazines to look at the models in them and how they are airbrushed and portrayed in the magazines themselves also to look at what kind of models they use and how much editing is done to the images.

Internet:

http://www.ourbodiesourselves.org/book/excerpt.asp?id=2

http://www.cmch.tv/mentors_parents/bodyimage.asp

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/teenage-pressures-media-and-body-image/5497.html

http://www.urbanette.com/obsessed-with-thin-media-gone-too-far/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2122177/Meet-real-life-Barbies-Internet-craze-sees-teenagers-turn-freakish-living-dolls.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/769290.stm


All these websites also help with my research showing about body image, models, airbrushing eating disorders and the media. All these things link into what my FMP will be about and is all important research for my subject.