Are Feminist Women Protected from Body Image Problems? A Meta-analytic Review of Relevant Research

By Sarah K. Murnen, L. Smolak. 2009

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Pharmacy

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Femininity Ideology and Sexual Health in Young Women: A focus on Sexual Knowledge, Embodiment, and Agency (2011, background): “Indeed, a recent meta-analysis ( Murnen & Smolack, 2009 ) found that feminist identity was related to more positive attitudes toward one's body and was negatively associated with a drive for thinness and disordered eating.”
Pressure To Be Perfect: Influences on College Students' Body Esteem (2010, background): “As Murnen and Smolak (2009) concluded, feminism may empower women to act more in their own self-interest than to blindly follow the dictates of society that women should focus much attention on their bodies.”
Instagram Use and Self-Objectification: The Roles of Internalization, Comparison, Appearance Commentary, and Feminism (2018, background): “A recent meta-analysis reviewing the literature on feminist-identified women and body image and eating concerns suggests that women who endorse a feminist identity are less likely to report body image disturbance and bulimic symptoms (Murnen & Smolak, 2009).”
Oppressive Beliefs at Play: Associations among Beauty Ideals and Practices and Individual Differences in Sexism, Objectification of Others, and Media Exposure (2010, background): “First, it may be useful to include a wider array of measures that tap different components of sexist attitudes, or conversely, egalitarian or profeminist attitudes (e.g., see Murnen & Smolak, 2009).”
Leaks, Lumps, and Lines (2011, background): “For example, Rozin, Haidt, McCauley, Dunlop, and Ashmore (1999) asked 250 college students to interact with a series of objects hypothesized to evoke disgust.”
Low-Cut Shirts and High-Heeled Shoes: Increased Sexualization Across Time in Magazine Depictions of Girls (2013, background): “Further, in a meta-analytic reviewMurnen and Smolak (2009) found that across 26 studies, feminist women were less”
The Relationship Between Body Image Concerns, Eating Disorders and Internet Use, Part II: An Integrated Theoretical Model (2016, background): “Consistent with these theories, meta-analytic findings have shown a positive association between feminist identity and positive body image and lower eating pathology among women (Murnen and Smolak 2009), suggesting that heightened feminist consciousness may help adolescent girls to engage in critica”