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

dealing with other countries historical perspectives. My main focus throughout the book is the psychology of body image and the understanding of body image instability and distortion found in chapter three.

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

influences can change body image as a result and some of these influences can be internal or external according to the individual. This chapter goes into great detail that a variety of key factors can shift the way we perceive our body image being getting older, feeling below the weather, depressed, media, eating, or even communicating to ourselves what most bodies look like around us. These influences listed above can have all sorts of different reactors from individuals while some being positive and others negative we discover through the reading. What is the most evident upon reading is the more you seem to care about your body the less stable your body image is and the more vulnerable you are. One can not be so sure, due to the daily shifts people encounter from being happy about what they see, to swearing it off completely. In conclusion to chapter three, the more you are to focus on your body, the more likely you are to acknowledge body image distortions
After doing a full evaluation of the source, I’ve come to consider that it is a very reliable source due to it being a book and many grabbing a variety of interest amongst readers on the internet.

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

references.
I feel confident in this source helping form the background of my argument for my presentation due to other sources within my bibliography not having much background or dealing with body image concepts much like this one does. From looking outside the Rod Library databases, I found this book to be a common buy and many reviews for people on the internet which makes for a reliable source. This book, specifically chapter three, makes you think deeper into the background of body image instead of personal references helping the research aspect of my presentation. The book helped better my overall view on body image due to the resourceful information that is added. My goal is to start with this resource in my presentation for a clear opening and a strong ending with personal experiences.