What Is Shape-Magazine?

Women’s Body Image (www.wellesley.edu/Health/BodyImage) helped demonstrates the young influence of magazines. Those days when girls strive to be something they weren’t, were probably the most crucial days in body imaging. They succumbed into the pressure of looking how everyone else wants them to look. Such teeny bopper magazines sell to many young girls the idea of beauty. Teen Magazine is the princess of that royal court. In every young woman, or man’s mind, there is this longing to be desired. To be desired, you must be attractive. To be attractive, you have to look like that girl on page seventy-one in the latest Teen Magazine (Women’s Body Image).

In “Feeding Hard Bodies: Food and Masculinities in Men’s Fitness Magazines” Fabio Parasecoli addresses the increasing popularity of men’s health and body image. Many magazines, including Men’s Health, Men’s Fitness, and Muscle and Fitness, are targeted toward men of all ages who wish to improve their physical appearance. The particular body ideal they reinforce is one of high muscle and low fat, a body that can be hard to achieve for the average man. Therefore, specific nutrition is the key in obtaining the ideal body. Men are now becoming more aware of their appearance, body image and body health. With the standards, dedications and effort put into obtaining the ideal body type, food industry is giving men easier ways to get and maintain

There are a lot of excellent significant landmarks that can be commemorated by a coin by the colonial Williamsburg foundation; but here are the four structures that are worthy of being commemorated: The Bruton Parish Church, the Capitol, the Governor's Palace, and the Magazine. Commemorate means to honor a certain place or a person. All these structures are important, but the most significant structure to commemorate is clearly the Magazine. According to my research, the Magazine is the best choice because it succeeds all of the goals it has to meet, it has a lot of historical significance, it is relevant to citizens today, and it has a connection to the mission statement “The future may learn from the past.”. The paragraphs below will explain

The magazine Ladies Repository: A Monthly Periodical Devoted to Literature, Arts, and Religion is a magazine that was published in 1800 and was targeted towards young women. The magazine was a way to help teach and encourage women of the time on how to properly fit in and behave according to the rules that society had placed on them. It taught them how to be considered an ideal, cultured woman with high morals and spiritual standards. Although many readers today would argue that the teachings and ideas taught by this magazine are extremely outdated and outrageously sexist, one must realize that this was society’s standard for women during the 1800’s.

How should I look like to have the ideal body? An increasing number of women ask themselves this question many times in their lives. Deborah Sullivan’s essay, “Social Bodies: Tightening the Bonds of Beauty”, discloses the different cultural traditions that require various methods of body modifications. Women should undergo such modifications to obtain social acceptance. Similarly, “Pressures to Conform” by Celia Milne discusses the effects of media and society on women, and how women view their physical appearance. The media gives women a plethora of choices for the perfect body and even provides ways on how to achieve them. There is no escaping. There is no excuse of not getting the ideal body that ranges from that of a stick-thin ramp

Images of female bodies are everywhere. Women, and their bodies, sell everything from food to cars. Women's magazines are full of articles urging women to fit a certain mold. While standing in a grocery store line you can see all different magazines promoting fashion, weight loss, and the latest diet. Although the magazines differ, they all seemingly convey the same idea: if you have the perfect body image you can have it all…the perfect marriage, loving children, great sex, and a rewarding career. The media, whether TV, print, or Internet advertising, seems to play a huge role in influencing women of all ages; from adolescence and teens, to women in their twenties and thirties, as well as

A female should not feel insecure with her body when she is comfortable in her own skin, whether or not she weights 130 pounds or 150 pounds at 5’5”. According to Rehab’s study of the evolution of the female figure over one hundred years, “the body shapes of the most admired models have remained consistently slimmer than that of the average American woman.” Due to the significant increase in mass media throughout the twentieth century of the United States, there has been a noteworthy impact on the popular image of women. A woman being dissatisfied with their body is a everyday trend around the world where as

The final magazine I will be examining is Marie Claire. This is another publication aimed at a more mature audience, with a deeper focus on beauty through materialism. Like Complete Woman, it contains more explicit sexual detail and a more serious focus on relationships. Also, because of its abundance of advertisements of expensive cosmetics and clothing, we may assume that this magazine is class-specific to a wealthier consumer. Marie Claire’s cover stories include “What Your Style Says About You”, “How to Get Perfect Skin: 44 Products that Really Work”, “How Often Do You Have Sex?”, “Men: What They Don’t Want You To Do”, and “428 Fashion and Beauty Ideas”.

In October 2012, Shape Magazine unveiled a new cover photo demonstrating and tying into the many societal beliefs and ideologies of the time, while interpellating each viewer or reader into the distinct subject position desiring to be like her. Interpellation is the process by which “an individual is constructed as a subject by the institutions of modern life; the unique individual is always defined by the generalized social categories of the modern state” (Nealon & Searls Giroux 44). Furthermore, this act of interpellation in the ad directs readers to different messages and connotations into which viewers align themselves. By using a variety of signs, the magazine cover engages the readers to align themselves with explicit messages, but also

Fitness magazines typically feature articles concerning weight loss and often include a variety of topics ranging from celebrity workout routines to diets to supplements to sex tips to and even healthy recipes. Some, such as Men’s Fitness boast a front cover with an attractive celebrity’s that has got toned for an upcoming film and entail that celebrity’s routine and diet as well as interviews asking them what they did to prepare for their role. Often the celebrity says he did some intense cardio and weight lifting routines and stuck to a very strict diet while leading up the film’s premiere. There are almost always products being endorsed by the celebrity in the magazine including gyms, supplements, or clothes. The central component of these magazines however isn’t to offer the consumer advice, motivation, or fitness news. It is instead to show the attractive celebrity showing off their muscles and abs, which causes consumers to try and look the same. This is not only found in fitness magazines but in all aspects of the media. This is an effective technique that targets the consumer’s insecurities because as statistics show the average American male is overweight. And as a culture obsessed with weight and looking physically aesthetic it is a strong selling point that Gold’s Gym marketers are well aware of. To sell gym memberships, the Gold’s Gym advertisement in Men’s Fitness uses bold words spelling the words “F-A-T” and “F-I-T” using a overweight man as the center letters

Research indicates that exposure to thin ideal images in women's magazines is associated with heightened concerns for body shape and size in a number of young women, although the media's role in the psychopathology of body image disturbance is generally believed to be mediated by personality and socio-cultural factors. The purpose of this research study is to know and gather solid facts and reasons about fashion magazines affecting the teenagers’ body image in a form of research to self evaluation through careful accumulation of acceptable data and relevant resources for such data to be precise and spontaneous in its respected details to support results.

This program aids fat reduction and also tends to body-shaping. This has been developed for women by using a recognisable

Body-shaming perpetuates the degradation of women and is a recurring theme in advertising. Women have always been measured by cultural ideas of beauty; and advertising exploits and reinforces stereotypes of women as sex objects. The iPant Long Leg Shaper, “shapes and sculpts as it releases ingredients into your skin while you move throughout the day” as stated at the bottom of the advertisement. This product claims to correct the appearance of cellulite and construct a bulge-free silhouette. The advertisement flaunts a beautiful, flawless, slender, Hispanic woman wearing her shapewear. It implies that her super-model appearance is within reach of any woman wearing this product. These pervasive images prey on the insecurities of teens and young women regarding their body image and forces them to scrutinize each body part separately to achieve an unattainable goal of perfection.

Due to the fact that the text, “Slim Legs! Firm Butt!”, is in big, pink letters and highlighted.This image perpetuates the idea that fitness for females means achieving a high standard of fitness that isn’t easy to attain. Not to mention that above the magazine cover it reads”Your Fast Track To a Flat Belly” also implying that every woman’s fitness goal is to have a flat belly, omitting woman who don’t want to have a flat belly or want to be stronger instead of trying new diets. Since, not all women can achieve this goal, it can lower their self esteem and provide tips that are not beneficial to their health. Michele’s clothes are meant to purposely show off her body along with her various accessories. Her gold ring, silver necklace and gold beaded bracelets are added to give the impression that she is the typical feminine

Lifestyle magazine are magazines that tells the audience about the lifestyle they live and can have an impact on their lives as their views can be subverted by the ideology of the magazine. This ideology comes from the creators of the magazine; they put what they think instead of what the public thinks about a certain topic. In this writing i am going to talk about what the lifestyle magazines do in order to attract specific audience and how they achieve in targeting specific audience.