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Idealized Bodies

Sun, August 9, 2:00 to 3:30pm, TBA

Session Submission Type: Paper Session (90 minute)

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Papers in this session examine how some bodies (real or imagined) are socially constructed as more valuable than other bodies, and the effects of these idealized bodies on people’s everyday lives, relationships, and aspirations. Specifically, this session addresses: media and medicalized representations of ideal bodies; discourses and images of fatness/thinness and ideal body weight and shape; the role of expertise in constructing ideal bodies; intersectional approaches to beauty; and other related topics.

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