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Perpetuating Beauty Ideals through Health and Beauty Claims in TV Promotional Segment
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Abstract Health and beauty have been proposed as mutually inclusive physical and
psychological constructs, mediated by one’s own personal emotional and spiritual
state of well-being. While it has been widely accepted that health and beauty are
interrelated in the sense that beauty reflects one’s inner hea... mehr
Health and beauty have been proposed as mutually inclusive physical and
psychological constructs, mediated by one’s own personal emotional and spiritual
state of well-being. While it has been widely accepted that health and beauty are
interrelated in the sense that beauty reflects one’s inner health, there has been a
worrying trend in which health is exploited in peddling beauty products and vice
versa. In understanding how health has been commoditized in the beauty market,
this study examines the manner health in the name of beauty, have been constructed
in propagating beauty ideals and hegemonic values in a popular daily television
program in Malaysia, Wanita Hari Ini (WHI). The findings concluded that within the
prevalent capitalist hegemony, health had been turned into an apparatus in selling
beauty. For the product owners, it is not about promoting health in gaining beauty,
but rather about capitalizing on health because it can sell beauty.... weniger
Klassifikation
Medieninhalte, Aussagenforschung
Freie Schlagwörter
Beauty ideals; gender; health and beauty claims; TV promotional segment
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2019
Seitenangabe
S. 597-613
Zeitschriftentitel
Media Watch, 10 (2019) 3
ISSN
0976-0911
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
Creative Commons - Namensnennung, Nicht kommerz., Keine Bearbeitung 4.0