Women's “beach body” in Australian women's magazines

Small, J

Women's “beach body” in Australian women's magazines

Small, J

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Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Annals of Tourism Research, 2017, 63 pp. 23 - 33
Issue Date:: 2017-03-01

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Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Small, J https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6200-5398	en_US
dc.date.issued	2017-03-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Annals of Tourism Research, 2017, 63 pp. 23 - 33	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0160-7383	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/71486
dc.description.abstract	© 2016 Representations of tourism subjects, both people and places, extend beyond specifically tourism media. This paper explores the presummer images of swimwear and beach bodies in Australian women's lifestyle magazines. A content analysis of swimwear images confirmed British findings that there was a general uniformity in the characteristics of the women modelling the swimsuits: young, slim, white ethnicity (but tanned) and able-bodied. Critical Discourse Analysis highlighted that the beach body discourse is in many ways contested. On the one hand the beach is a place of abandonment, but women need to work hard to achieve the required normative image. Women's agency and choice is questioned due to the narrow normative image and the neo-liberal, consumerist systems underlying the discourse.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Annals of Tourism Research	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1016/j.annals.2016.12.006	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Sport, Leisure & Tourism	en_US
dc.title	Women's “beach body” in Australian women's magazines	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	63	en_US
utslib.for	1504 Commercial Services	en_US
utslib.for	1505 Marketing	en_US
utslib.for	1506 Tourism	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Business
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Business/Management Discipline
utslib.copyright.status	open_access
pubs.publication-status	Published	en_US
pubs.volume	63	en_US

Abstract:

© 2016 Representations of tourism subjects, both people and places, extend beyond specifically tourism media. This paper explores the presummer images of swimwear and beach bodies in Australian women's lifestyle magazines. A content analysis of swimwear images confirmed British findings that there was a general uniformity in the characteristics of the women modelling the swimsuits: young, slim, white ethnicity (but tanned) and able-bodied. Critical Discourse Analysis highlighted that the beach body discourse is in many ways contested. On the one hand the beach is a place of abandonment, but women need to work hard to achieve the required normative image. Women's agency and choice is questioned due to the narrow normative image and the neo-liberal, consumerist systems underlying the discourse.

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