Everyday Embodiment: Rethinking Youth Body Image

The book offers an innovative approach to body image, exploring the social and cultural dimensions shaping young peoples body ideals and concerns. It challenges simplistic understandings and advocates for non-individual dimensions to be foregrounded in strategies to address this complex youth wellbeing issue.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 166 pages
Publication date: 14 May 2022
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG

This book presents a groundbreaking conceptual and methodological approach to addressing one of the most pressing health and well-being challenges facing contemporary youth: body image. The author highlights the need to explore the social and cultural dimensions that shape body ideals and young people's body image concerns, which have been largely overlooked in the current landscape of social media and youth body cultures. Through a sociological lens, the book reframes body image, emphasizing the social and cultural factors that play a crucial role in shaping young people's everyday bodily experiences. The chapters delve into the significance of gender and wellbeing norms, as well as the ways in which circumstances of hardship and inequality play a significant role in mediating body concerns. By challenging simplistic understandings of body image, the book reveals the complex processes through which body concerns are formed through the circumstances of embodied experience. The author advocates for the non-individual dimensions of body concerns—the social and cultural conditions of young people's lives—to be foregrounded in strategies aimed at addressing this complex youth wellbeing issue. This book will be of great interest to scholars in gender studies, youth studies, and feminist sociology.

Weight: 238g
Dimension: 210 x 148 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783030701611
Edition number: 1st ed. 2021