The essay 'The Nazi Body. The Contained Body', written by filmmaker Nayra Sanz Fuentes, addresses how National Socialism used image and cinema to shape a disciplined, aesthetic, and power-submissive ...

Like many of her peers, Abigail (21) takes a lot of selfies, tweaks them with purpose-made apps, and posts them on social media. But, she says, the selfie-editing ...

Body representation within modern media has skewed thin, white, cis, and able-bodied for a long, long time. People who haven't seen themselves reflected in media images have had to reckon with how ...

Recently I was watching a "makeover" segment on some women's television show while paging through a magazine advertising expensive and high-fashion clothes. This was in the gym, and although many of ...

Through social media like Instagram, users are constantly exposed to “perfect” lives and thin-ideal bodies. Research in this field has predominantly focused on the time youth spend on Instagram and ...