Websites for catalogue

Catalogue:

Representation of Women in Fashion Magazines

1. Look Magazine http://www.look.co.uk/

2. Elle Magazine http://www.elle.com

3. Grazia magazine www.graziadaily.co.uk

4. Media Magazine http://www.englishandmedia.co.uk/

Articles written by different people about how gender is represented in different magazines including fashion magazines.

Magazines and gender – bliss, zoo, smash hits and q NEW SEPTEMBER 2007

Stereotypes in magazines – representing gender NEW SEPTEMBER 06

Keeping it real – magazines NEW SEPTEMBER 06

Analysing media language in magazines

5. Daily Mail Article http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1151404/Degrading-disgusting-demeaning-Im-ashamed-modern-womens-magazines-says-Cosmo-editor.html

A Daily Mail news article about the negative representation of women in fashion magazines.

6. Media Awareness http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/issues/stereotyping/women_and_girls/women_beauty.cfm

Article about how fashion magazines negatively influence women to have a thin body.

7. The Fashion Book by Phaidon

8. Google Books: Fashioning the feminine

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=inVZ3UIQCyoC&printsec=frontcover&dq=representation+of+women+in+fashion&source=bl&ots=E5uKOxbTdu&sig=7kgCqAYSciYVxGj3W3L4UKIsGbA&hl=en&ei=lFKXTNGCDpSh4Qbzr_DCBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CCkQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=representation%20of%20women%20in%20fashion&f=false

9. Portrayal of women in Fashion Magazines http://www.kon.org/urc/v5/blaha.html

A student essay on the portrayal of women in fashion magazines with statistics of weight/poses/facial expressions etc.

10. The Extent of Damaging Representations of Women in the Media http://www.articlemyriad.com/9.htm

11. Google Books: The Portrayal of Gender in Print Fashion Advertising By Andrea Kern http://books.google.com/books?id=zuY03qz-3U4C&pg=PA3&dq=fashion+representation&hl=en&ei=e7iZTMfIK-aIOMPw-MYP&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCcQ6AEwADgU#v=onepage&q=fashion%20representation&f=false

Book about the portrayal of genders in fashion advertising.

12. “Stop Exploiting Plus Size Women, Fashion Magazines” article http://collegecandy.com/2010/01/15/stop-exploiting-plus-size-women-fashion-magazines/

Article about the exploitation of bigger women in fashion magazines and how different sizes are treated unequally as models in the fashion industry.

13. http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/fashion/project-archives/1st/session-9-fashion-magazines-blogs-and-evolving-patterns-of-fashion-communication-and-criticism/

14. Google Books: The Feminine Ideal

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=mo3shY_azw0C&pg=PA71&lpg=PA71&dq=representation+in+fashion+magazines&source=bl&ots=Xq6hj6YEfh&sig=ctvMMdrosY8vql-zGrBKFwtL3cU&hl=en&ei=_pKgTMvTDtX24AaMoui6DQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBcQ6AEwADgU#v=onepage&q=representation%20in%20fashion%20magazines&f=false