Annotated Bibliography On Body Image

This annotated bibliography is a summary of some of the most relative research on body imagine found within Rod Library’s databases. This bibliography looks closer into detail at five different sections of facets on the selected issue including some of psychology of body image, an insider’s story dealing with body image issues and successes, the different affects medias have on body image, acceptance of cosmetic surgery, and the promotional aspects of body image. Greene, S. B. (2011). Body image. [electronic resource]: perceptions, interpretations and attitudes. New York: Nova Science Publishers, c2011. The identification of this source is known to be an eBook found within the Rod Library’s databases that has a variety of background information

This chapter takes a more in depth and informative point of view to help readers get a better understanding of meanings behind vocab and terms we are unfamiliar with. As we pick up in chapter three, body image has been known to be evolving and fluctuating since the first half of the twentieth century until now. With the growing terms that have been experimented and explained over time, the definition of body image is now stated as, “… The picture we have in our minds of the size, shape, and form of our bodies; and to our feelings concerning these characteristics and our constituent body parts.” Chapter three takes many terms that we do not hear when judging or talking about body image, and instead gives definitions and studies on how these concepts came about. The article points out that many

This source will come in very useful when I have to give background information and relay different concepts to my own audience in my own presentation. Due to the book adding credible case studies throughout and authors of a psychological background, chapter three provides a lot of resourceful and reliable material. The authors of this book were to have wanted to reach out to different classes as well as men and women who have a high interest in the certain areas and criteria’s of body image. Although I do wish this book would have stayed on track with America’s history of body image, it is a very helpful book to take into count for future