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Peer reviewedOliver, Kimberly L. – Teachers College Record, 1999
Explored how fashion helped urban adolescent girls desire and create normalized images of the perfect woman, examining their stories about their bodies and how their stories and images empowered them to become healthy women. Data from group discussions, journal writing, freewriting, and written stories indicated that fashion taught girls to desire…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Body Image, Clothing, Females
