This article reviews evidence that manhood is seen as a precarious social status that is both
difficult to achieve and tenuously held. Compared with womanhood, which is typically …

Objective: Most past research has focused on body dissatisfaction among females. This
paper provides a review and evaluation of studies that have examined body dissatisfaction …

Objectification theory proposes that widespread sexualization causes women to engage in
surveillance of their appearance. We integrated this concept into a model with constructs …

Fully revised and updated, Body Image 4th Edition provides a comprehensive summary of
research on body image in men, women, and children drawing together research findings …

In the opening chapters, we saw that communication in society influences our
understandings of gender and our gendered identities. It's equally true that our …

Much of the existing research on disordered eating has centered on the drive for thinness,
which is most commonly observed in girls and women. The male standard of bodily …

This paper focuses on the question of sampling (or selection of cases) in qualitative
research. Although the literature includes some very useful discussions of qualitative …

A core textbook for sports science and human movement courses. Describes measurement
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Research suggests that cultural shifts in the ways men's bodies are represented lead men to
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