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A 5 page literature review of
three articles which discuss the negative affects of advertising on young women.
Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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in young people. Our younger generation looks to the media to offer models of what life should be like, what one should look like, and how one should live. This
is not to say that young people are not heavily influenced by their parents, peers, and teachers. But, it is to say that the media presents a picture of the
outside world that the child is often intrigued by, using such advertisements to gain an understanding of what life is really like. Bearing this in mind it becomes quite
obvious that the media, particularly advertising, can create a false picture of the world, and a false model that the young individual, particularly the young woman, tries to emulate. And,
in attempting to emulate these false ideals the individual will find that their self worth becomes lower as they try to achieve an ideal that cannot possibly exist. These are
important issues that can hurt our future generations, and thus hurt our society. In the following paper we provide a literature review of three separate articles which deal with different
aspects of this social condition. The Body Impolitic: Fashion and its Critics Sell the Same Stereotypes The first article to be discussed is titled "The body impolitic: fashion
and its critics sell the same stereotypes" and is written by John Leland (1996). It comes to us from the June 17, 1996 edition of Newsweek magazine. In this article
we note that the author argues the standard measurements of many models can be 33-23-33, a very unrealistic combination of measurements for the majority of young women. Leland (1996) also
states that "From Twiggy to Kate Moss, the fashion industry has been attacked for idealizing such extreme slenderness, encouraging real women to hate their own bodies--and, at the extreme, to
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