* Takes a cultural development perspective, offering a unique approach which provides a clear, coherent framework for the book, and takes a balanced approach to quantitative and qualitative research
* Features significant coverage of men and children as well as women, and contains useful indicators and lessons for how to promote positive body image, making this essential reading for students and academics across a range of disciplines, as well as professionals interested in body image
* New edition includes the latest research and developments on topics including body image interventions, social media, incidence of dieting and cosmetic surgery, popular culture, and body scanning
Sarah Grogan is Emeritus Professor at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. She has been involved in body image research since 1990. Her research centres on reducing body dissatisfaction in men, women, and children, with a particular focus on the impact of body image and related behaviours on physical health.
Title: Body Image: Understanding Body Dissatisfaction in Men, Women and Children
Author: Grogan, Sarah
ISBN: 9780367569495
Binding:
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publication Date: 2021-11-12
Number of Pages: 250
Weight: 0.4201 kg
Professor Grogan's skillfully updated book is an excellent, science-grounded source of information and insights on body image. The work considers body image and its consequences within multiple determinative contexts, such as culture, gender, ethnicity, social class, media, and sexuality. I strongly recommend this reader-friendly work to scholars and students alike.
Thomas F. Cash, Old Dominion University, USA
In this eagerly-awaited fourth edition, author Sarah Grogan offers a comprehensive, insightful and up-to-the-minute distillation of knowledge about body image in the 2020s. She skilfully summarises the broad and ever-expanding body of research into one thought-provoking but very readable and accessible volume. The accompanying illustrations and quotations serve to make the material come alive for the reader and demonstrate the very real human significance of this contemporary concern.
Marika Tiggemann, Flinders University, Australia
What we know about body image is continuously expanding in exciting ways due to the evolving interest and research in this area. In her fourth edition, Professor Sarah Grogan expertly captures and distills this knowledge to create an up-to-date, thoughtful, comprehensive, and accessible text which aptly recognizes that the experience of body image differs based on identities such as gender, age, and culture. This text is certain to be the go-to resource for anyone who would like a deeper and nuanced understanding of the current status of the body image field.
Tracy L Tylka, The Ohio State University, USA
Professor Grogan's skillfully updated book is an excellent, science-grounded source of information and insights on body image. The work considers body image and its consequences within multiple determinative contexts, such as culture, gender, ethnicity, social class, media, and sexuality. I strongly recommend this reader-friendly work to scholars and students alike.
Thomas F. Cash, Old Dominion University, USA
In this eagerly-awaited fourth edition, author Sarah Grogan offers a comprehensive, insightful and up-to-the-minute distillation of knowledge about body image in the 2020s. She skillfully summarises the broad and ever-expanding body of research into one thought-provoking but very readable and accessible volume. The accompanying illustrations and quotations serve to make the material come alive for the reader and demonstrate the very real human significance of this contemporary concern.
Marika Tiggemann, Flinders University, Australia
What we know about body image is continuously expanding in exciting ways due to the evolving interest and research in this area. In her fourth edition, Professor Sarah Grogan expertly captures and distills this knowledge to create an up-to-date, thoughtful, comprehensive, and accessible text which aptly recognizes that the experience of body image differs based on identities such as gender, age, and culture. This text is certain to be the go-to resource for anyone who would like a deeper and nuanced understanding of the current status of the body image field.
Tracy L. Tylka, The Ohio State University, USA
