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Body Image Law

Revolutionising Images of Thin-Ideal Women

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-1-041-12967-7
Verlag: Routledge
Erscheinungstermin: 20.10.2025
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This book examines the effectiveness and limitations of existing body image law, and proposes evidence-based regulatory alternatives informed by public health and psychology research.

Poor body image affects millions of people worldwide, and, despite the body positivity movement, the pressure on women in Western countries to have smaller bodies continues to cause significant harm to many. This book contributes to improving this, through drawing on evidence from research which outlines the harm excessive social media use and exposure to models with smaller bodies can cause to an individual’s body image. It explores the regulatory efforts of governments in Israel, France and Norway which passed Body Image Laws, and failed attempts to pass bills in this area in Canada, the United Kingdom, Brazil and the United States. This book analyses the outcome of BMI requirements for catwalk fashion models, warning messages on digitally altered images and prosecuting pro-anorexia content creators. It asks why the current forms of body image law do not align with significant findings from public health and psychology. This book offers a compelling, evidence-based overview of body image as it intersects with law. It argues that body image law in its current form is unlikely to be effective and makes suggestions for evidence-based approaches instead.

This book will be of interest to researchers concerned with body image and the law as it relates to public health law, social media law and advertising law and anyone who has poor body image, an eating disorder or knows someone who has.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9781041129677
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-1-041-12967-7
  • Verlag: Routledge
  • Erscheinungstermin: 20.10.2025
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage 2025
  • Serie: Routledge Research in Fashion Law
  • Produktform: Gebunden, HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
  • Gewicht: 317 g
  • Seiten: 140
  • Format (B x H x T): 145 x 222 x 11 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
Autoren/Hrsg.

Autoren

1. Introduction2. Body Image and Eating Disorders Generally and Associated Socioeconomic Issues3. Theories to Explain the Connection Between Seeing Images of the Thin-Ideal and Developing Poor Body Image and Eating Disorders4. How Social Media Impacts Body Image5. Body Image Law: A Detailed Examination6. Challenges Associated With Body Image Law7. Pro-Anorexia Websites/Social Media and the Law 8. What Might Work to Help Improve Body Image and Ways to Lower the Number of Unhelpful Images of the Thin-Ideal, Based on Evidence9. Conclusion